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To ensure the continued operation of the server, it is necessary to develop its support. Server monitoring is an important aspect of server success and is on par with server security and backup access. Monitoring servers in a timely manner allows you to detect and respond to the emergence of…

First of all, quickly generate a new read-only API token in https://my.pingdom.com/app/api-tokens Then, use the following code to get a quick export of your Pingdom exports with name, hostname and path. export PINGD_AUTH="[the api key you generated in step 1]" for i in `curl -X GET https://api.pingdom.com/api/3.1/checks -H 'Authorization:Bearer $PINGD_AUTH'…

UptimeRobot is one of the leading free uptime monitoring software. The tool is really popular, especially because it allows you to install at least 50 monitors with a check every 5 minutes, all at no cost. However, this is certainly not the only such service. In this article we review…

One of my first tasks at Yad2 was to redesign the current CI/CD pipelines which were pretty straightforward at the time. We had a single On-premise Gitlab server that was responsible for: Source code Docker image registry CI pipelines CD pipelines Not a high availability solution, to say the least. This…

Hey everybody. In this post, I will tell you. How I created my own health checker for a couple of hours and integrated it. CODE repo: https://github.com/NasirAliyev/health-check I have my own small project. The project consists of several services and every service is running on its own virtual machine. …

Prologue Practically ever startup today has a system status page — typically a simple page with a few charts and incident history giving users a quick overview of the current situation, eg. are there any problems right now? Should I wait and try later? It’s useful for staff, it’s useful for…

How to better use and understand the data from the popular website speed test tool Pingdom. You can use it to do what we call a waterfall analysis of your website. This helps you more easily diagnose performance issues, and also not misdiagnose a problem. …

Automatic monitoring for your Kubernetes cluster — Do you know how well your web applications are doing on your Kubernetes clusters? Let me introduce the latest addition to Heptio Labs, internal open source tools made available to the community, with two further questions. First: how confident are you that all the web applications deployed to your Kubernetes…

by Alex Kinnane, Rob Boulton, Mark Barnes — You will probably have heard of the meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities and their associated fixes. You may also have heard of the performance impact of those fixes. At the FT we have a number of monitoring tools that we use to inform us about system health and performance. With a…