http://simonwillison.net/2018-06-22T21:23:27+00:00Simon Willison2018-06-22T21:23:27+00:002018-06-22T21:23:27+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jun/22/four-golden-signals/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/monitoring-distributed-systems.html#xref_monitoring_golden-signals">The Four Golden Signals</a></strong></p> “The four golden signals of monitoring are latency, traffic, errors, and saturation. If you can only measure four metrics of your user-facing system, focus on these four.”—from the excellent (and free) Google Site Reliability Engineering book. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/monitoring">monitoring</a></p>

2011-01-13T04:26:00+00:002011-01-13T04:26:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2011/Jan/13/monitoring/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.paperplanes.de/2011/1/5/the_virtues_of_monitoring.html">The Virtues of Monitoring</a></strong></p> Fantastic guide to the various levels of monitoring required for a modern web application. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/monitoring">monitoring</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/operations">operations</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a></p>

2010-12-10T10:04:00+00:002010-12-10T10:04:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Dec/10/etsy/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/12/08/track-every-release/">Tracking Every Release</a></strong></p> How Etsy use Graphite to monitor their continuous deployment releases. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/continuous-deployment">continuous-deployment</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/monitoring">monitoring</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/devops">devops</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/etsy">etsy</a></p>

2009-11-18T12:47:42+00:002009-11-18T12:47:42+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/18/kong/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://ericholscher.com/blog/2009/nov/17/announcing-kong-server-description-and-deployment-/">Announcing Kong: A server description and deployment testing tool</a></strong></p> An ultra simple website monitoring tool written in Django which makes it easy to manage a list of Twill scripts for testing different sites. It was developed at the Lawrence Journal-World—Eric showed me a demo if this a year or so ago and I’ve been hoping they would open source it. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/eric-holscher">eric-holscher</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/kong">kong</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/monitoring">monitoring</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ops">ops</a></p>

2009-10-29T08:32:18+00:002009-10-29T08:32:18+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/29/memcachetop/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://code.google.com/p/memcache-top/">memcache-top</a></strong></p> Useful self-contained perl script for interactively monitoring a group of memcached servers. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/memcached">memcached</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/monitoring">monitoring</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/perl">perl</a></p>

2008-06-28T23:53:37+00:002008-06-28T23:53:37+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/28/graphite/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://graphite.wikidot.com/">Graphite</a></strong></p> Real-time graphing package for server monitoring, similar to RRDTool. Created by the team at Orbitz, using Django and ExtJS for the frontend and Cairo to generate the graphs. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cairo">cairo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/extjs">extjs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphing">graphing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphite">graphite</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/monitoring">monitoring</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/orbitz">orbitz</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rrdtool">rrdtool</a></p>

2008-03-29T22:20:10+00:002008-03-29T22:20:10+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/29/god/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://god.rubyforge.org/">god - process and task monitoring done right</a></strong></p> I have a long running animosity towards every process monitoring tool currently in existence; I’ll have to put this one through its paces and see if it sucks less. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/god">god</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/monitoring">monitoring</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/processes">processes</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ruby">ruby</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin</a></p>

2007-05-11T11:36:48+00:002007-05-11T11:36:48+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/May/11/ganglia/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/">Wikimedia Grid Report</a></strong></p> Wikipedia’s Ganglia monitoring page. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gaonglia">gaonglia</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/monitoring">monitoring</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wikimedia">wikimedia</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wikipedia">wikipedia</a></p>