In a previous post we discussed how to improve the performance of BerkeleyDB by tuning the cache size. Let’s see how Paid Monitor can help you keep tabs on the cache hit rate and other critical database metrics. We use a custom monitor created by a perl script, monitor_bdb.pl, which can be downloaded from our repository on [...]

If you would like to monitor a number or string from some arbitrary web page anywhere in the world, Dan Fruehauf’s article, HTTP Extraction With Paid Monitor, shows you how.Dan’s article not only explains how, but also contains sample code to show how.  The sample code is written in M3 (the Paid Monitor Monitor Manager) and uses [...]

Files keep growing!  Then comes the ultimate crash when they’ve grown too much.  If you would like to monitor the number and size of the files in some directory on your server (and who wouldn’t), Mikayel Vardanyan shows you the easy way in Monitoring Files and Directories with Paid Monitor.Mikayel demonstrates how to use a Python [...]

Application Management (AM) includes project management, development, testing, quality assurance, release management, application monitoring, and responding to the information supplied by monitors.  Application Performance Monitoring(APM) is application monitoring that is focused on performance rather than security, availability, planning, or some other matter.This article is part two of a primer for those who have never heard [...]

 Application Management (AM) includes project management, development, testing, quality assurance, release management, application monitoring, and responding to the information supplied by monitors.  Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is application monitoring that is focused on performance rather than security, availability, planning, or some other matter. This article is part one of a primer for those who have [...]

If you know Visual Basic and WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), Hovhannes Avoyan’s article, How to Monitor Windows Servers with VBScript, WMI, and Paid Monitor, on the Paid Monitor blog is well worth a read.  It is a well-written article that shows how to monitor WMI data from the cloud.  All the VB code is included. The same [...]

The power of Paid Monitor and Paid Monitor Monitor Manager M3 Paid Monitor can monitor everything – and anything. In the last article I’ve demonstrated some of Paid Monitor Monitor Manager (M3) framework capabilities with parameter extraction from web pages. M3 support parameter extraction via XML xpath, JSON path and also a simple regular expression. In the following article I’ll [...]

Got Cacti? Proper disclosure – the author have never properly used Cacti as a monitoring system in a production environment. So what’s Cacti? – I’m not sure that after the proper disclosure I can actually comment too much, but from my first impression, Cacti is a fairly comprehensive server and network monitoring platform for Unix. It’ll support graphing [...]

This blog is on the 12th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. Thank you, sysadmins for all your hard work, long hours and sleepless nights spent on deploying and maintaining servers and other IT infrastructure. Many of us at Paid Monitor started as sysadmins. It is a tough task. It’s like being a Swiss Army knife – [...]

monitor.us is our 100% free website and server monitoring service. It is unique among similar services in that it imposes no cap on the number of URL’s monitored. As a result, we have some users monitoring hundreds, even thousands of URL’s from one account, for free, forever. That’s great, but what if you want to [...]