I hold this presentation during the Drupal User Group Meetup in Basel on 25th April 2012. It's an overview of Drupalmonitor.com. I covered topics about general wishes regarding Drupal monitoring. I also talked about existing solutions. I also made a demo (not included in the presentation). If you want to try the service yourself, you can create an account on www.drupalmonitor.com and start monitoring your sites!

1. drupalmonitor.com
A better place to monitor all your
Drupal sites in one place.
26. April @ Drupal UG Basel
lf@netnode.ch / @lukasfischer

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3. Why monitoring?
• Status “OK”
• “Houston we have a problem”

4. Our problem/solution (yesterday)
• Problem
• 70+ sites
• hosted on different servers
• D5/D6/D7
• Solution
• Munin for server monitoring
• no site monitoring
• Very rough “monitoring” with intranet

5. New problems/wishes
• Overall goal: Simplifing maintenance & service quality
• Status monitoring
• Are all sites up? If not, send an alert! Logs to see what happend!
• Updates hassle
• Module and core updates overview (what sites need action)
• Ideally the tool would recommend what to do
• Performance data
• How many request do we actually deliver?
• How many logged in users do we server?
• Automating checks
• Basic configurations done right? E.g. Caching enabled, etc.
• Cron runned?
• Automated Collected/Updated data
• How many D6/D7 sites?
• Server/System data (phpinfo)

6. Existing solution?
nope
well, a couple!

7. Option 1 - no monitoring
I don’t care about my site
NOPE...

8. Option 2 - client
Client calls you when site is NOK.
NOOPE...

9. Option 3 - manual checks
• cmd-r/F5
• update module/status page
• drupal.org/project/prod_check
• drupal.org/project/hacked
• drupal.org/project/hosting_stats
• drupal.org/project/variable_changes
http://www.drupalmonitor.com/blog/drupal-modules-that-help-you-monitor-drupal
NOOOOPE...
does not scale

10. Option 4 - contrib
http://drupal.org/project/nagios D6/D7 908 sites
http://drupal.org/project/munin D6 26 sites
http://drupal.org/project/cacti D6 5 sites
http://drupal.org/project/droptor D6/D7 881 sites
http://drupal.org/project/sentry_server D6 31
http://drupal.org/project/sentry_client D5/D6/D7 179
ok...
but not all wishes covered

11. Option 5 - Enterprise tools
• New Relic http://newrelic.com/ well ok...
• Groundwork http://www.gwos.com/ not Drupal specific...
• Zenoss http://www.zenoss.com/ expensive...
heavy...
• ...

12. Option 6 - Drupal tools
well ok...
• Acquia network (insights, SEO grader) not Drupal specific...
• Droptor expensive...
heavy...

13. Option 7 - drupalmonitor.com?
YES

14. Solution: drupalmonitor.com
• 100% Drupal focus
• A multiple site dashboard overview + detailed per
site report
• Simplicity
• One module to install on website (no dependencies)
• One monitoring service
• No additional server side software
DEMO
• no configuration

15. Version 1.7

16. Architecture drupalmonitor.com
API Report ALERTS
mysite.com
every 2 min
drupalmonitor.com DB CRAWLER othersite.com
immediately
greatsite.com
IMG RRD-Tool ALERTS
updated every 5 min

17. Version x.1.10
• 2 Level monitoring
• Simple HTTP check, Closing </html> tag check
• Extended Drupal monitoring (/drupalmonitor)
• Features
• Dashboard: Multisite overview
• List all sites with scores
• List Criticals
• Log entries of all sites
• Site
• Basic Summary + Some checks + Site Logs
• Module updates + Drush commands
• User RRD Graph
• Requests RRD Graph
• Files RRD Graph
• Slow Pages Table
• (Watchdog RRD Graph)

18. Next steps
• Put project on drupal.org
• Better interface
• Alerting & Notifications
• weekly reports per e-mail
• Better alerting
• Better Drupal problem score integration
• e.g. SEO checklist
• e.g. Performance checklist
• e.g. Security checklist

19. Future
• Ideas
• Source code check (is my site hacked?)
• Automated scripts/updates (e.g. access site
via ssh from drupalmonitor.com)?
• Backup Manager?
• Cron Job Manager?

20. Try! It’s free!
www.drupalmonitor.com

21. Help!
• I have some questions to you!
• Tweet about it
• Tell friends about it
• Use it and give feedback
• http://drupalmonitor.com/survey

22. Questions & Discussion
• Do you monitor your sites?
• How do you monitor your sites?
• What is the biggest issue on monitoring and
maintaining Drupal sites?
• How do you like the drupalmonitor.com
approach?

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