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10-31-2013 06:56 PM #1 itsjustbrian (Member)
How to monitor server performance?

Hey guys, total newb to server management. I have a managed VPS with BeyondHosting.

I'm wondering how do you keep track of your server performance over the course of the day? Especially curious ab out this since my campaigns have suffered from server related issues, many of you know.

I mean, I can manually check using tools like pingdom and webpagetest.org... but that's just a snapshot of 1 moment.

How do you guys do it?

Thanks!

10-31-2013 07:50 PM #2 bbrock32 (Administrator)

I use monitis , it's $10 per month and really worth it.

10-31-2013 08:15 PM #3 fjk87 (Veteran Member)

Originally Posted by bbrock32

I use monitis , it's $10 per month and really worth it.

The uptime monitors / Fullpage Load monitors should pretty much do the job for simple LP / tracking servers right ?

10-31-2013 08:21 PM #4 bbrock32 (Administrator)

Originally Posted by fjk87

The uptime monitors / Fullpage Load monitors should pretty much do the job for simple LP / tracking servers right ?

Yep thats all I ever used

10-31-2013 08:44 PM #5 itsjustbrian (Member)

This tool is cool man!

I am tracking US/AU/some EU countries and getting average 175ms response time. Good, bad?

10-31-2013 09:44 PM #6 itsjustbrian (Member)

bbrock, whats a good benchmark I should get close to as far as "good" server performance is concerned?

I have HTTP and Ping dashboards added, not really sure what to make of it.

Based on my experience in video gaming, you want your ping to be under 100ms, lol.

10-31-2013 09:56 PM #7 andyvon (AMC Alumnus)

So what URLs are you guys monitoring to judge uptime and performance? Is the CPV Lab login page plus LP index.php a good idea or are you using sth different than that?

10-31-2013 10:16 PM #8 itsjustbrian (Member)

I just used the server IP, not the domains.

On another note, looks like BeyondHosting is offering a server performance monitoring service for free in a few weeks, we'll see lol.

11-01-2013 04:21 PM #9 caurmen (Administrator)

Worth noting that Pingdom offers free uptime testing too for one domain. It's basic, but it does the job.

11-01-2013 09:07 PM #10 clickright ()

We use http://www.newrelic.com/

11-01-2013 11:35 PM #11 itsjustbrian (Member)

Hey guys, is there a good benchmark to compare to? pingdom says 163ms server response time, and other tools say something a little different.

Whats frustrating is I upgraded my VPS on BeyondHosting, but my campaign is performing worst than last week, even though my hosting is supposedly faster. Its a variable I definitely don't want to worry about.

I want affordable hosting I can rely on!

11-02-2013 05:36 AM #12 thedudeabides (Moderator)

New Relic seems to be a popular choice.

11-02-2013 12:15 PM #13 caurmen (Administrator)

@itsjustbrian - is that 163ms for full page load, or just for first byte response? Also, where's the server located, and which pingdom server are you testing from?

I could do a tutorial on how to interpret speed test results if people would find that useful - let me know.

11-02-2013 08:09 PM #14 graham (Member)

Originally Posted by caurmen

I could do a tutorial on how to interpret speed test results if people would find that useful - let me know.

Definitely.
It would be good to know for which kind of pages, which kind of pagespeed would be good, average etc.

11-04-2013 01:14 PM #15 caurmen (Administrator)

Gotcha. It's on the Tutorial Ideas List!

(BTW, I know I've been promising new tutorials for a while - planning on doing a bit of a rampage through recommended tutorials after I finish the Getting Started Guide, which has one more part to go.)

11-05-2013 12:35 AM #16 BeyondHosting-Tyler (Member)

Originally Posted by itsjustbrian

Hi Brian, if your having performance issues get a ticket open with us.

163ms is fine for an http request latency, which is what I assume your measuring.

Don't forget pingdom is all over the world so your going to see all sorts of different results. Data can only move at the speed of light.

05-11-2014 05:40 AM #17 dlegia (Member)

If you have VPS or Dedi you can use http://www.cacti.net/

this way you can monitor a lot of server stats and research performance problem bottleneck

05-13-2014 04:56 PM #18 BeyondHosting-Tyler (Member)

Originally Posted by dlegia

If you have VPS or Dedi you can use http://www.cacti.net/

this way you can monitor a lot of server stats and research performance problem bottleneck

If your looking for a solution to do graphing observium is plug and play.

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