Unlike our regular shell agent, our PHP Server Monitoring Agent cannot automatically detect your server’s network interface name, so this name is set to empty by default. This setting being empty means that the agent will track the network usage data from all available network interfaces. However, if you wish to set just one specific […]
Articles Tagged: uptime monitor
Install the PHP version of the Server Monitoring Agent (on cPanel)
If you wish to monitor your server’s resources, but you do not have root access (i.e.: you’re on a shared web hosting plan), you can just use our PHP Server Monitoring Agent. The installation procedure is a bit more complex than our regular monitoring agent, but this guide will show you exactly what you’ve got […]
Multiple Disks Support
Starting with version 1.05 of the HetrixTools Server Monitoring Agent, we’ve introduced multiple disks support. You will be able to find all of your mount points under the “Disk Usage” section of your Server Monitoring stats in your dashboard: For an easy “at a glance” view of your entire server disk space, each mount point […]
Service Monitoring
Starting with the HetrixTools Agent v1.05, you can define up to 10 services to be constantly monitored by our agent on your server. To configure this in your Agent, please follow the instructions below, (a) or (b): a) Setting the services you wish to monitor during the HetrixTools Server Agent installation: b) Manually editing the […]
Select multiple monitors at once with SHIFT+Click
Our Blacklist Monitoring and Uptime Monitoring interfaces have Group Actions available. In short, the “Group Actions” feature allows you to select multiple monitors and apply an action to them all at once, as opposed to applying that action individually for each monitor. And with SHIFT+Click you can now select a range of monitors to apply […]
Debugging the issues which caused your downtime
Our support is sometimes asked general questions such as, “why was my website down?”, “other uptime monitors that I use didn’t detect my website to be down. Why did HetrixTools alert me?”, “I just checked my site and it loaded up. Why did I get notified that it is down?”, and so on and so […]
Difference between Location Fail Log and Network Diagnostics
Both of these are diagnostics that will help you investigate and debug the issues that were causing your monitored target to be offline, but there’s a big difference in how our system collects the data for these two logs. In short, the Location Fail Log is collecting data the exact moment a monitoring location finds […]
Location Fail Log
The Location Fail Log contains the exact errors our monitoring locations encountered when trying to access your monitored target. The entries here are logged at the exact moment when/if any of our locations encounter an issue trying to verify if your monitored target is Online. The errors in the Location Fail Log can provide all […]
Server Monitoring Resource Usage Webhook Notifications
In order to receive Server Monitoring Resource Usage webhook notifications, you will need to have the following: Once you’ve got all of that configured, whenever you receive Resource Usage alerts, your Webhook URL will receive JSON format data, as well. General payload parameters: monitor_id – your monitor’s unique ID (can be found in the link […]
How to whitelist our Uptime Monitoring Nodes in CSF
Please note that it’s not necessarily needed to whitelist our uptime monitoring IPs in your firewall. This should only be done if you are experiencing monitoring issues without whitelisting these IPs. However, if you do wish to whitelist these IPs in your CSF, start by running the following command on your server’s SSH: wget -q […]