Both words, observability and monitoring, are often used interchangeably and without taking care of the difference. Monitoring Monitoring is alerting based on known, predefined metrics and log patterns. Events Examples of events are: Last example threshold could even be improved to consider the partition size as 10% remaining space is obviously not the same for a 1 GB partition (100…
The question comes frequently: How can I monitor my MongoDB cluster (ReplicaSet or Sharded) in a production environment? To answer this question we need first to get an overview of all potential monitoring solutions, and then compare them one by one. That’s exactly what we gonna do in this blog post series of MongoDB Monitoring solutions. Actually, a few monitoring…
What is Nagios ? “Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.” https://www.nagios.org/ In simple words, you can monitor your servers (linux, MSSSQL, etc …) and databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, etc …) with nagios. We use the free version !!! 😀 …
As you already know if you are following our Documentum Story, we are building, working and managing, for some time now, a huge Documentum Platform with more than 115 servers so far (still growing). To be able to manage properly this platform, we need an efficient monitoring tool. In this blog, I will not talk about Documentum but rather I…
We saw in my last blog how to install the SQL Server plugin for Nagios. In this new blog, I will explain: how to create a wrapper to avoid the unset of the PERLLIB variable how to create and configure a configuration file by monitoring instance how to create an SQL Login for nagios How to subscribe to an alert…
Nagios is an IT Infrastructure monitoring solution which is able to monitor SQL Server instances with a specific plugin. I have installed this plugin to test those functionalities and I will explain here how to do it. Prerequisites installation FreeTDS installation FreeTDS is a set of libraries for Unix and Linux that allows your programs to natively talk to Microsoft…
