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Watchdog is responsible for monitoring tiny systems like raspberry PI, BeagleBone or any other system.
The main functionality of the watchdog is to check, if the system is still responding, lets say, to keep-alive messages.
Let’s assume, the system is stuck in a kernel panic, this will be automatically restarted by watchdog after reaching a grace time period. So a manual rebooting by unplugging the DC adapter is not required at all.
netdata is a system for distributed real-time performance and health monitoring. It provides unparalleled insights, in real-time, of everything happening on the system it runs (including applications such as web and database servers), using modern interactive web dashboards.
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Another modern method for the mobile age to be up to date everywhere about your infrastructure. Everyone has a mobile device with internet access, you need only a ICQ client to receive information notifications.
Today I’m going to talk about how to bring this idea to live… [Read more…]
Another alternative way to monitor Windows machines with NSC-Client, you need only one time access to the Windows-Box and install the client and configure it.
All other monitoring steps can be performed from the monitoring instances like Icinga or Nagios.
Q: What can be monitored? [Read more…]
The original Plugin was written by Chris Bair, after some tunings it worked fine for me.
I made some useful modifications to this Plugin:
– Visualization of the number of Drafts
– Set table prefix (I hate hardcodet things)
And now how to use it, first you need to create a configuration file for the plugin(replace the needed credentials) [Read more…]