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 […]
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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 […]
Server Monitoring Agent – Install Templates
This feature allows you to create account-wide agent install templates. By saving up the agent install options once, into a template, you can easily reuse these options for future agent installs on new servers. The agent install templates are found at the bottom of the pop-up modal when installing our Linux Server Monitoring Agent: Creating […]
How to use Quick PING
The idea of our Quick PING feature came right from our developers, that needed a quick way of pinging a server during planned reboots without having to manually open their OS terminal, type in the ping command and copy/paste the IP address of the server they wished to ping. So, here’s one of the best […]
Quick PING
Are you constantly finding yourself having to open multiple PING windows in your OS terminal? Our Quick PING feature allows you to easily PING your server’s IP address with just a click of a button right from your browser. To get started, head to your Uptime Monitors dashboard. Then click on an Uptime Monitor’s name […]
Server Agent – Custom Variables
You can use this feature of our Server Monitoring Agent to send custom metrics to be displayed for this Server Agent in your HetrixTools dashboard. Requirements: Use case example: Example: 1) A simple bash script to collect the last minute’s HTTP code counts from your Nginx access.log:https://gist.github.com/hetrixtools/b11cb74770a38d45ea774ebd5ebeec13(must be placed on a 1-minute cron job) This […]
Using the Server Monitoring Relay
If your server is having issues sending data to our Server Monitoring endpoint (sm.hetrixtools.net), it could be due to Cloudflare blocking your IP address. This can sometimes happen if your IP address has a poor or bad reputation. In such cases, you can use our Server Monitoring relay to send your agent metrics to our […]
Disabling the ‘Reboot Required’ warning icons
One of our Server Monitoring Agent features is that it will try to determine whether or not your server requires a reboot, as explained here: https://docs.hetrixtools.com/reboot-required-warning/ However, the icons this feature generates might be distracting at times, so we’ve implemented a way that you can tone these down, so they only appear when opening the […]