Posts tagged 'monitoring'

Or, everything you wanted to know about setting up Ganglia, but couldn't grok from the official documentation - part 2.

In this post I'll cover:

• What purposes the different Ganglia utilities serve, and how they fit together.
• How to set up a minimal configuration, from apt-get install through to configuring Apache …

Or, everything you wanted to know about setting up Ganglia, but couldn't grok from the official documentation - part 1.

I recently set up Ganglia monitoring on couple of new machines I'm looking after. While I've used Ganglia before, I wanted to do some slightly non-standard things this time around. This …

For cluster-usage monitoring I've mostly been using Ganglia, as covered here. But while it provides a great overview, sometimes you need to drill down and quickly see who's running what, on which node.

For this, htop is a great tool with minimal overheads - console friendly interface, tiny footprint etc.

I've …