Is Linux disk utilization on your monitoring dashboard?

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

Recently we rolled out a new release of LogicMonitor. Among the many improvements and fixes that users saw, there were also some backend changes to the Linux systems that store monitoring data. The rollout went smooth, no alerts were triggered - but it was pretty easy to see that something had ...

Linux Monitoring, Net SNMP and terabyte file systems

Saturday, June 11th, 2011

Or, how to deal with signed integers in a way that makes sense when doing Linux Monitoring. A customer contacted us this week and said "Hey, one of my filesystems that was being monitored by LogicMonitor disappeared after I grew it."  Turns out the filesystem in question was now a bit ...

Linux Monitoring is dead.

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Long live Linux monitoring. By which I mean that, unless you are a kernel developer or some other individual with esoteric purposes, having Linux up and running is not the point of your servers.  Your servers are there to DO something, whether that's to serve web pages, answer database requests, or ...