We are soon releasing PushMon, a free monitoring service for scripts, batches and jobs. The basic idea is that cron scripts will "ping" a URL on a regular basis, and will notify the user if this "ping ...

There's an old DevOps story of a developer who, when asked by a member of the ops team why an app isn't running on the live servers, replies "It's just fine on my laptop". To which the only reply is ...

For about a year, my company had been struggling to roll out a monitoring solution. False positives and inaccurate after-hours pages were affecting morale and wasting system administrators' time.

In the ever-evolving digital world, Linux servers form the backbone of enterprises, web applications, and cloud infrastructure. Whether hosting websites, databases, or critical applications, ensuring ...

I have been tasked at my new job for finding a way to monitor server space on our many servers, originally I thought of something like Spiceworks, but the lead programmer/admin for this wants ...

As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

Cron processes, or "cron jobs," may be used to start and stop applications within a Linux or Unix operating system. You can create cron jobs to perform functions such ...