Monitor: Best solutions for keeping track of uptime?

[hunterowens]

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.

[riking (Kane York)]

There is already a New Relic plugin for Discourse:

Newrelic plugin

New Relic support Author: Sam Saffron Support for http://newrelic.com plugins/newrelic/plugin.rb # name: enable New Relic rpm # about: New Relic support # version: 0.1 # authors: Sam Saffron ENV["NRCONFIG"] = File.expand_path('../newrelic.yml', __FILE__) gem "newrelic_rpm", "3.6.7.152" NewRelic::Control.instance.init_plugin :config => Rails.configuration after_initialize do ForumsController.newrelic_ignore :only => [:status] end plugins/newrelic/newrelic.yml The file you got from newrel…

[justin_gordon]

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!

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@justin_gordon

I’d like to get the latest recommendations from the Discourse dev team.

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.