Archive for April, 2011

Network Monitoring .. Not all automation is good

Friday, April 29th, 2011

LogicMonitor is, as far as I know, the most automated network monitoring system out there.  But there is one area we don't provide much in the way of automation, that we are often asked about - automated scripts in response to alerts.  There are few reasons why not, which flow ...

Troubleshooting server performance and application monitoring – a real example.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

We got a question internally about why one of our demo servers was slow, and how to use LogicMonitor to help identify the issue.  The person asking comes from a VoIP, networking and Windows background, not Linux, so his questions reflect that of the less-experienced sys admin (in this case). ...

MySQL Linux Tuning talk

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Not really monitoring, but I just finished giving a talk at the MySQL conference.  (It was gratifyingly packed with people, too.) Thought I'd post the slides here. The summary is: you need to be able to measure and trend on your OWN infrastructure - your kernel, hardware, MySQL version, application. (Of course, ...