Monitoring your Production Server with Munin, Monit, LogWatch, and other open source tools

If you are a small development shop, chances are your clients look to you guys for a little bit of everything... developing the application, recommendations for production hosting, and perhaps even monitoring the operational system for performance and security concerns. If you suddenly find yourself responsble for monitoring the health of a production application, where do you start?

In this session we will talk about the monitoring of a production application on linux, using tools that show you a snapshot of the host status right now, a running record of all machine statistics going back for as long as the machine has been running (for trending), tools for monitoring and reporting on application logs, automatically repairing some kinds of situations, and automatically "cry for help" with email, sms messages, and even phone calls when something goes awry.

About David Bock

David Bock is a Principal Consultant at CodeSherpas, a company he founded in 2007. Mr. Bock is also the President of the Northern Virginia Java Users Group, the Editor of O'Reilly's OnJava.com website, and a frequent speaker on technology in venues such as the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposiums.

In January 2006, Mr. Bock was honored by being awarded the title of Java Champion by a panel of esteemed leaders in the Java Community in a program sponsored by Sun. There are approximately 100 active Java Champions worldwide.

David has also served on several JCP panels, including the Specification of the Java 6 Platform and the upcoming Java Module System.

In addition to his public speaking and training activities, Mr. Bock actively consults as a software engineer, project manager, and team mentor for commercial and government clients.

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