The short answer would be that uptime monitoring is the process of monitoring the uptime of your websites and servers using a third-party uptime monitoring tool. These tools will periodically access your website or ping your server to make sure that they are up and running correctly. Whenever they are found to be down or […]
Articles Tagged: server monitor
Debug Mode – Windows Agent
Starting with the version 2.0.4 of our Windows Server Monitoring Agent, we’ve introduced Debug Mode. This mode, when turned on, allows your agent to generate a log file located at C:\Program Files\HetrixTools\debug.log, which you can send to our support staff in order to debug potential issues with your agent. To turn Debug Mode on/off, run the following commands in […]
Windows Server Monitoring Agent v2
[30 Oct 2024] We’re thrilled to announce the much-awaited v2 of our Windows Monitoring Agent:https://github.com/hetrixtools/agent-windows You can install this version right now on your Windows server or computer, as shown in the following guide:https://docs.hetrixtools.com/installing-the-windows-server-monitoring-agent/ This is a big stepping stone from the v1 Windows Monitoring Agent, which had been stuck in pre-alpha since its inception. […]
How to increase Linux Server Monitoring Agent metrics collection intervals
If you’d like to configure our Server Monitoring Agent to collect its metrics less often (default every 3 seconds), you can do so by editing the agent’s config file as follows. [available for version 2.1.x+] Open the following agent configuration file with any text editor: /etc/hetrixtools/hetrixtools.cfg Locate the following section: CollectEveryXSeconds=3 Change this value to […]
Debug Mode – Linux Agent
Starting with the version 2.2.x of our Linux Server Monitoring Agent, we’ve introduced Debug Mode. This mode, when turned on, allows your agent to generate a log file, located at /etc/hetrixtools/debug.log which you can send it to our support staff in order to debug potential issues with your agent. Turn on Debug Mode sed -i […]
ZFS Health Monitoring
This feature is included for free in our Uptime Monitor service. [Available on our Linux Server Monitor Agent Version: 2.1.x+]https://github.com/hetrixtools/agent You can use our Linux Server Monitor Agent to keep track and be notified of the health of your ZFS pool(s). To begin, head on to your uptime monitors dashboard from your client area menu. Now, find […]
Ignore certain Network Interfaces for Server Monitoring Agent
This brief guide shows how you can select only certain Network Interfaces to be monitored in your Server Monitoring Agent v2+ Start by editing the agent config file with your preferred text editor; it is located at: /etc/hetrixtools/hetrixtools.cfg In this config file, locate the “Network Interfaces” section: Modify the “NetworkInterfaces” value to contain only the […]
This is how we use our own platform when performing non-impacting planned maintenance on our infrastructure
In the following guide, we’ll demonstrate how easy it is to use our platform for your infrastructure management and the few basic steps you can take when performing planned maintenance on your servers. We use our platform ourselves to monitor our non-impacting infrastructure components. The critical infrastructure components should always be monitored from multiple different […]
CPU Temperature Monitoring
Starting with version 2.x of our Linux Server Monitoring Agent, we’ve introduced CPU Temperature Monitoring. This feature works by default on most systems. Please note that you’ll have to be running the monitoring agent on the bare metal server, not inside a container or VM on that server (the temperature cannot be read from inside […]
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 […]