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Good Free VPS Server Monitoring

CraigWatsonCraigWatson Member
edited August 2015 in General

Does anyone have any recommendations for a decent free monitoring tool for Linux (specifically Ubuntu 14.04)?

Needs to handle metrics (so CPU, RAM, network) and (ideally) email-based alerting for < 5 servers, and be SaaS. Retention isn't a huge issue but 1 month would be nice.

Ideally something like StackDriver or NewRelic would do, but I'm unsure exactly how many servers NR's Lite tier supports, or whether you can just monitor servers on their own without app-level reporting.

Comments

  • @vfuse and nixstats

    Thanked by 2CraigWatson vfuse
  • @TinyTunnel_Tom said:
    vfuse and nixstats

    Legend, will try it out, thanks :)

  • Observium:
    observium.org/

  • vfusevfuse Member, Host Rep

    Let me know if you need any help getting started with NIXStats, feedback is appreciated as well since it's still in beta :)

  • haryhary Member

    how to signup nixstats?

  • vfusevfuse Member, Host Rep

    @hary said:
    how to signup nixstats?

    Use invite code LET.

  • sinsin Member

    I use NixStats, New Relic Server Monitoring, and Linode Longview (it's free even for non-linode servers)

  • @vfuse nice, thanks a lot, nixstats looks awesome!

    I've created a Puppet module to help with installing (all of my boxes are Puppet-controlled).

    Feel free to share it around - https://forge.puppetlabs.com/CraigWatson1987/nixstats

    Only installs the Bash agent at the moment, may add the python one later this week :)

  • @vfuse Nixstats looks great going to add servers for monitoring soon will share the feed back But

    Great monitoring tools

    @vfuse

  • flexflex Member

    try nodequery
    works good for me

  • I use: http://newrelic.com/ on the free tier.

  • Too bad, nixstats is timing out for me right now when I went to sign up.

  • @boxelder said:
    Too bad, nixstats is timing out for me right now when I went to sign up.

    Frontend has been a bit up and down last hour or so, however API servers seem fine on the backend.

    Is a beta.

  • What about nodequery.com/?

  • @AshleyUk said:

    Yeah I understand it's beta, but wouldn't keeping the frontend up be a priority? It's been down for the past 2 hours counting.

  • wychwych Member
    edited August 2015

    Observium, Nodequery, nixstats.

    @boxelder said:
    Yeah I understand it's beta, but wouldn't keeping the frontend up be a priority? It's been down for the past 2 hours counting.

    LowEndDDoS?

  • Nixstats has been timing out for me all day. No biggy to me but might be a sign needs to build out more before it goes live.

  • vfusevfuse Member, Host Rep

    @lazyt said:
    Nixstats has been timing out for me all day. No biggy to me but might be a sign needs to build out more before it goes live.

    Everything should be good to go again now. Maintenance didn't last that long but somehow cloudflare kept showing 50x errors.

    Obviously as soon as NIXStats goes into production things like this won't happen, that's why it's in (closed) beta, so we can test the waters.

  • nixstats +

    Thanked by 1vfuse
  • Testing nixstats, seems to be good

    Thanked by 1vfuse
  • armindsarminds Member, Host Rep

    I am testing nixstats too. It looks nice but why is it free?

    Any privacy or security issues with them?

  • @arminds said:
    I am testing nixstats too. It looks nice but why is it free?

    >

    Any privacy or security issues with them?

    Its free during the closed Beta period, will be chargeable once feature full and bugs resolved, I am sure will be some form of discount for people that helped/support during the beta stage.

  • armindsarminds Member, Host Rep

    @AshleyUk said:

    Thanks a lot. I hope it can be affordable too.

    Thanked by 1AshleyUk
  • @vfuse said:
    Let me know if you need any help getting started with NIXStats, feedback is appreciated as well since it's still in beta :)

    Yea...but why the server uptime still 100% even have maintenance,see pm

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