• Monitoring NGiNX

  Metrics The following metrics are submitted to Nixstats. Requests per second Accepts per second Handled per second Total requests Active connections Writing Waiting Reading Dependencies urllib2 nginx compiled with --with-httpstubstatusmodule parameter Stub status page To enable the nginx stub status page add the following codPopular

• Monitoring PHP-FPM

  Metrics The following metrics are submitted to Nixstats. Accepted connections (per second, total) Active processes Total processes Idle processes Max active processes Listen queue Listen queue length Max listen queue Max children reached Start time Start since Pool Process manager Slow requests Dependencies urllib2 jsonPopular

• Creating a custom plugin

  The nixstats monitoring agent comes with a set of plugins to monitor your servers CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, Processes and a set of plugins for your services such as MongoDB, PHP-FPM, NGiNX, Apache2/httpd. Besides these plugins it's possible to monitor other metrics on your server by building your own plugin. Plugins are written in Python 2 or Python 3. To find out the version of python your agent is running on run nixstatsagent info the path to the plugin directory should reveal the pythonPopular

• Monitoring HDD/SSD/NVMe Disk health

  Using the diskstatus plugin you will be able to monitor the status of your hdd, ssd and/or nvme drives. This plugin requires the agent to be run under the root user. This plugin requires nixstatsagent version 1.1.50 or higher. To upgrade run pip install nixstatsagent --upgrade. Run as root The smartctl command needs to be run as the root user, therefor it's requiredSome readers

• Monitoring MySQL

  Metrics The following metrics are submitted to Nixstats. maxusedconnections openfiles opentables qcachefreeblocks qcachefreememory qcachetotalblocks slaveopentemptables threadscached threadsconnected threadsrunning uptime abortedclients abortedconnects binlogcachediskuse binlogcacheuse bytesreceived bySome readers

• Monitoring Apache

  Metrics The following metrics are submitted to Nixstats. IdleWorkers ReadingWorkers WritingWorkers KeepaliveWorkers DnsWorkers ClosingWorkers LoggingWorkers FinishingWorkers CleanupWorkers requestspersecond Total kBytes Total Accesses ServerUptimeSeconds BusyWorkers BytesPerReq BytesPerSec ConnsAsyncClosing ConnsAsyncKeepSome readers

• Monitoring software RAID status (mdstat)

  Mdadm is a Linux utility to manage and monitor software RAID. The mdadm monitoring plugin keeps track of failed disks in a RAID setup. Mdadm metrics Faulty Active Resync Read only Mdadm dependancies This plugin needs the mdstat python plugin, you can install this by running pip install mdstat. To fetch the status we also have to give this plugin sudo access, edit /etc/sudoers and add the following at the end of the file.Few readers

• Monitoring Docker

  This module keeps track of docker instances on your machine. The module uses the "docker stats" command to retrieve the statistics. Docker Metrics Memory usage Total memory Network in Network out Disk write Disk read CPU usage Docker container count Installing the Docker Monitoring Plugin The nixstats user needs sudo access to run docker stats. Open /etc/sudoers and append the following at the end of the file. nixstats ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/dockerFew readers

• Monitoring Virtual Machines (KVM, QEMU, Xen, Virtuozzo, VMWare ESX, LXC...)

  This plugin keeps track of guest virtual machines on your server. The following metrics are monitored. Virtual Machine metrics Disk read (bytes) Disk write (bytes) Disk read (requests) Disk write (requests) Networking out (bytes) Networking in (bytes) CPU Usage Memory Usage Memory min guaranteed Memory hard limit Memory soft limit Plugin dependancies This plugin needs the libirt-python plugin, you can instalFew readers

• Monitoring Exim Mail Queue Size

  This module keeps track of the total queue size when using exim. The module runs exim -bpc to retrieve the total mail queue size. Exim Mail Queue Size Metrics Total Queue Size Installing the Exim Mail Queue Size Plugin The nixstats user needs sudo access to run exim -bpc. Open /etc/sudoers and append the following at the end of the file. nixstats ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/exim This is considering exim is installed in /usr/sbin/exim. Now open /etc/nixstatsFew readers

• Monitoring minecraft

  This plugin monitors some metrics that are available on minecraft servers. It can keep track of multiple minecraft servers. Minecraft Metrics Active players Max players Install the Minecraft monitoring plugin To install the minecraft plugin you just have to edit /etc/nixstats.ini. Add the following data. The hosts value can accept multiple minecraft hosts, comma seperated. You can also just have a singleFew readers

• Monitoring Asterisk

  Asterisk is a free and open source framework for building communications applications. This plugins allows you to monitor calls as well as incoming calls. Asterisk Mail Queue Size Metrics Calls Incoming calls Installing the Asterisk Plugin The nixstats user needs sudo access to run sudo asterisk. Open /etc/sudoers and append the following at the end of the file. nixstats ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/asterisk This is considering exim is install in /usr/sbin/asterisFew readers

• Monitoring CloudLinux

  With the CloudLinux Module you'll be able to monitor individual users on your CloudLinux servers. Installing the Cloudlinux PluginFew readers

• Monitoring MongoDB

  This plugin keeps track of your MongoDB instance. MongoDB Metrics asserts.msg asserts.regular asserts.rollovers asserts.user asserts.warning connections.available connections.current connections.totalCreated mem: bits mem: mapped mem: mappedWithJournal mem: resident mem: supported mem: virtual opLatencies.commands.latency opLatencies.commands.ops opLatencies.reads.latency opLatencies.reads.ops opLatencies.writes.latency opLatencies.writes.opsFew readers

• Monitoring CPU Temperature

  CPU Temperature is available currently only on Linux bare metal servers (not on virtual servers). To test this plugin run sudo -u nixstats nixstatsagent test temp. This should return temperature for all available sensors on the server. Enable the plugin by editing /etc/nixstats.ini add: Now run service nixstatsagent restart to apply the changes. (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/fe832dec61b99800/screenshot-2019-08-06-at-1350398744a.Few readers

• Monitoring Redis

  Metrics The metrics available from metrics can be found on the source of the plugin. You can enable/disable metrics by commenting them (prepend with ) out of the file. Dependencies redis pypi If you're running python3 you can run pip3 install redis, if you're running the older python2 nixstatsagent you can run pip install redis. You can find out the version by running nixstatsagentFew readers