Gandi Bar - Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - Comments

Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - hagel IT-Service Hamburg

hagel IT-Service Hamburg — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:35:27 +0100

Thanks for the monitoring!

Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - chrisfarms

chrisfarms — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:06:53 +0200

handy...

+1 for http (and other tcp level) probes!

Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - mc

mc — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:40:56 +0200

Great feature. Sadly, no alerts ; -).

If I can make one suggestion, as your hosting service continues to grow, it would be to move your server operations from the web _site_ to a dedicated web _application_. This would allow you to improve on the UX from scratch and not be tied to a layout and graphical style that is arguably less than ideal for its purpose. Part of this suggested move is basic design psychology; form follows function.

Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - Nicolas (Gandi)

Nicolas (Gandi) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:12:56 +0200

Josh: yes of course XMPP will be soon in the list (I already have fixed the french news but forgor the english one)
Steve Root: Will have a look at the Go/Bg/GB...The mail language problem will be fixed on monday or tuesday. For disk usage, except for Gandi AI, we don't have access to your filesystem, so it's not really possible, Leland is looking at the SMS platform, we will probably add it too.

Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - Steve Root

Steve Root — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:45:19 +0200

@Justin - I missed it first time too, On the page 'Servers', at the bottom is a list of all the virtual servers you have. You can click the name of the server to see more information about it, like the resource usage graphs.

I too would like http response monitor as Kaetemi, and Michael S covered other things I noticed.

On the servers page, (https://www.gandi.net/admin/hosting...), the Disk size is reported in Go, could be GB for English language (not Gb! GB = Gigabyte, Gb= Gigabit)

Email alert sent to me was in French, fine for me but the account is English so perhaps other customers won't understand.

I would like a monitor to tell me when I reached a threshold of disk usage, rather than load if that's possible (though there are other ways to check this that spring to mind, so I'm not overly concerned)

I would also like an SMS message option.

Thanks for creating the monitor system, having just moved half our web services to a Gandi virtual server, one of the things on my todo list is organise a monitoring service of some description and you've just done that for me

Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - Josh Triplett

Josh Triplett — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:10:47 +0200

Please consider supporting IM via XMPP (Jabber, Google Talk, etc) as well.

Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:53:59 +0200

Michael S.: thxs for the bug report...we will fix that asap and change the sender
Justin Noel: the block just below the graph on your server page

Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - Justin Noel

Justin Noel — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:11:56 +0200

Ummm..... is there a link somewhere?

Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - Michael S.

Michael S. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:49:14 +0200

This is a great service! Thank-you!

A few notes:

1. The CPU alert, at least, appears in French.
2. It would be nice if you could edit alerts. (e.g. change trigger point from 90% to 80%.)
3. If the target is "disk", the options for "name of the target" are in French.
4. Can the From email address be something like "probe" or "alert"? At the moment it's "hosting"--I think it's should be something more explicit to facilitate filtering. (And it definitely should if non-alert messages will ever be sent from "hosting@support.gandi.net".)

Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - Nicolas (Gandi)

Nicolas (Gandi) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:55:14 +0200

Kaetemi: that's a good idea...we'll see how to handle that quickly

Launch of the server monitoring and response service! - Kaetemi

Kaetemi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:37:26 +0200

Looks interesting. I think it might be useful as well to have the option of configuring it to visit some special http url set by the user as action. This would generally be more simple for the user to implement some useful action directly on the server to handle the situation automatically.