When dealing with server-performance, monitoring peaks is important to understand under which circumstances performance-issues arise. Monitoring can be done by using plain tools like top and iostat, but now there also is GraphDat. Now monitoring server-resources is just a cool thing to do.
Meet GraphDat
GraphDat offers a NodeJS based webapplication that can be fed with data from your server ... in real-time. After installing the agent on your server (you'll need root-access for that), the logging begins. Every second, data are sent from your server to the GraphDat server - CPU usage, memory usage, disc activitiy - which is then nicely displayed in a graph.
The GraphDat startup plan is free for 1 server. When analysing your own server, this is awesome already. If you need to monitor additional servers, they offer a $10 package for every server you add. Before to used to limit the data retention for the free account. Now it is completely free if you have only 1 server to monitor. Fantastic.
We think this is a great tool - hope you share the feeling!
About the author
Jisse Reitsma is the founder of Yireo, extension developer, developer trainer and 3x Magento Master. His passion is for technology and open source. And he loves talking as well.
