Does anybody know or has written anything about monitoring a discourse site:
Ie, - DB uptime/Site Uptime/Redis Uptime
response times, etc.
I’ve used New Relic in the past but have no strong preferences.
There is already a New Relic plugin for Discourse:
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I just signed up for https://uptimerobot.com/.
I’d like to get the latest recommendations from the Discourse dev team. @sam?
I thought about this today as I discovered that my programming site https://forum.shakacode.com was not responding. Yikes! Logging into the server and restarting the container
This is all I needed to get the site back up:
cd /var/discourse/
./launcher restart app
I then did the upgrade:
git pull
./launcher rebuild app
One “problem” with discourse is that it’s so easy to keep running that it’s easy to forget how to do maintenance!
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Our recommendations are a bit tricky here, we decide on a tool based off a very different decision matrix to what a self-hoster would. We think about things such as API, clean IPv6 support, long term reporting and so on.
As it stands we use https://www.pingdom.com and are in the process of migrating to https://www.statuscake.com/ due to some very specific ipv6 issues we are seeing at pingdom at scale.
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