On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Tom Perrine <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear monitoring gurus, > > What would you use for a monitoring solution for a *very* small site? > Say no more than 3 servers, just the basic HTTP, SMTP and DNS > services? > > In the "olden days" I would just do Nagios and be done, but.... > What's the current "state of the art" in open source monitoring? > > I would like: > up/down > graphs of usage (like SMTP connections, DNS queries, disk space, etc) > some kind of alerting (email or SMS) would be a "nice to have"
For $10/month Pingdom will monitor all those services and provide email and SMS alerts. You'll get uptime and response time graphs but not usage graphs. I suspect it will cost less and you will have better quality services if you outsource them all. Google Apps is free for up to 10 users, or for more users it's $50 per user per YEAR. Web hosting is inexpensive all over. External DNS is usually free with a domain name, or as low as $25/year for Anycast DNS from DNS Made Easy. If the site only has 3 servers I doubt you need serious internal DNS or DHCP, so dnsmasq on DD-WRT or whatever router/firewall you have is probably all you need. Pingdom can monitor the router uptime for free. -Anton
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