In the example below, we ask Claude to look into a server’s health after an outage. The server has Outgoing PING enabled in its monitoring agent, which gives Claude more information and context about current network health. There are still very light traces of intermittent packet loss, but the system is healthy enough that it […]
Articles Tagged: server agent monitor
Transfer Server Agent from one Uptime Monitor to another Uptime Monitor [within your own account]
To get started, head to your Uptime Monitors dashboard from your client area menu. Find the Uptime Monitor with the Server Agent you wish to transfer away, click on its drop-down action menu, and then click on “Transfer Server Agent”. You will be presented with the transfer pop-up modal where you’ll have to select another […]
Linux Server Monitoring Agent (v2) – API Endpoint Documentation
Endpoint https://sm.hetrixtools.net/v2/ Method: POST Request body format The request body is form-style (not JSON directly). It contains one key: j = a gzip-compressed JSON, then base64, then “URL-prepped” (only / and + are escaped). So the raw POST body looks like: j=<ENCODED_PAYLOAD> There are no other fields posted. Encoding steps for j Given the JSON string […]
Outgoing PING
You can configure our Linux/Windows Server Monitoring Agent to initiate and record outgoing PING requests to specified targets. This way, you can observe and be notified of packet loss that your server may experience towards any given targets. To get started, you’ll need to edit the agent configuration file. On Linux:/etc/hetrixtools/hetrixtools.cfg On Windows:C:\Program Files\HetrixTools\hetrixtools.cfg Look […]
Failed to read CPU temperature natively
You may come across this error if our Server Monitoring agent is unable to read your server’s CPU temperature natively (i.e., from inside a virtual machine or without the use of third-party software). The most common reason why you’d encounter this error is that the Server Monitoring agent is installed inside a virtual machine, and […]
Linux Server Monitoring Agent v2
[26 Sept 2023] Today, we’re very excited to launch version 2.0 of our Linux Server Monitoring Agent: https://github.com/hetrixtools/agent/tree/master This new version has many improvements compared to our agent’s previous (v1) version, and we’ll go through some of the more noticeable changes below. Server Info This section’s layout has been slightly redesigned to make room for […]
API – Add Server Agent Uptime Monitor (Heartbeat Uptime Monitor)
API Call Name: v2 Add Uptime Monitor API Call: https://api.hetrixtools.com/v2/<API_TOKEN>/uptime/add/ Create a POST request to the API link with a JSON payload built as instructed below. Example PHP Code Example Error Output Example Success Output
v0.9.77 – Server Agent Monitor
[August 26, 2019] In version 0.9.77 we’re introducing a new type of Uptime Monitor which will use reverse monitoring in order to keep track of your server’s uptime. Here’s how it works: Instead of our monitoring locations pinging your server to determine its online status, this Uptime Monitor will use our Server Monitoring Agent (installed on your […]
Why isn’t a Heartbeat monitor as reliable as other types of Uptime Monitors?
Short Answer: Because a Heartbeat Uptime Monitor has only one point of failure, which is your server’s ability to send data to our platform, unlike all of the other Uptime Monitor types where your monitored target is checked from different geo-locations around the world. So, with a Heartbeat Uptime Monitor, if at any time for […]
Attach a Server Monitor to any of your Uptime Monitors
If you wish to monitor your server’s resource usage, using our Server Monitor Agent, you don’t necessarily have to add a ‘Server Agent Monitor‘ to your account as a separate Uptime Monitor, you can just attach the Server Monitor Agent to any of your existing Uptime Monitors, as explained below. Start by going to your […]