Category Archives: Monitoring

Install the Linux agent behind a proxy

Servermeister.com agent allows proxy configuration for the below combinations. Proxy needs to be configured during the installation phase. Read more about downloading and installing the Linux agent. 1. Scenario 1 – user:password@proxyhost:proxyport sudo ./Site24x7_Linux_xxbit.install -i -key=123456fd2dc1234a6a0cc9536d1b6ce0 -proxy=user:password@proxyhost:proxyport 2. Scenario 2 – user@proxyhost:proxyport sudo ./Site24x7_Linux_xxbit.install -i -key=123456fd2dc1234a6a0cc9536d1b6ce0 -proxy=user@proxyhost:proxyport 3. Scenario 3 – proxyhost:proxyport sudo ./Site24x7_Linux_xxbit.install -i […]

Installing the Linux agent

Click Admin > Inventory > Add Monitor Select Linux Server Monitoring in the Add Monitor page Login to your server or connect your remote server and copy paste the commands in your console Install the Linux Agent One-step installation: Execute the following command in the Linux terminal (independent of the OS architecture: 32-bit or 64-bit) […]

Difference Between Website and REST API Monitoring

Website monitoring allows you to monitor your websites and web applications to ensure that they are up and running. Website monitor verifies the availability of specified, addressable, standard HTTP and HTTPS URLs from over 50+ global locations and also from behind your firewall. Content check for text content is also supported. You also have GET, […]

Install the Windows Agent with a proxy

For Windows platforms – Complete the installation of the agent After installation, the agent software can be accessed from the tray icon in your Windows machine Right click the icon and select Proxy Configuration Configure details such as proxy server name and port number as well as proxy user name and password Restart the agent

What does the error message mean: “Content Length Modified”

Under Threshold Configuration, if you have the option ‘Notify when website content modified’ selected, then any minor textual change on your website will reflect as a trouble alert. In the Servermeister.com portal, Log in and navigate to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and availability > Add Threshold Profile > Threshold Configuration > Notify when […]

Monitor groups

Monitor Groups help organize resources being monitored by geography, function, topology, ownership or by business application. We create an integrated view for effective monitoring and management by grouping resources. For example, the performance and uptime of your business critical e-commerce depends on various factors such as availability of the website, load time of web page […]

Response time in Website monitoring

In website monitoring, response time is calculated as the total time taken to resolve the DNS, complete the TCP hand-shake and download the full HTML output from the server. However, it does not include getting the images and other resources that are loaded within the HTML page. Note: The factors taken into account to calculate […]

Why do I sometimes see spikes in my website’s response time?

Response time is a combination of DNS time, connection time and download time. Spikes in response time could be due to increase in DNS time or connection time or download time. Some factors to consider: In case of increase in DNS time, one way of resolving this is by configuring the option “Resolve IP Address […]