Anturis Monitoring Software Detects Problems in your Websites

by Jeff Cogswell

When you first create an account and log in, you see a nice GUI that lets you immediately start configuring your components.

Anturis includes monitoring for several types of components, including web servers, MySQL servers, and various hardware and operating systems.

Setting up a web server to monitor a site is a simple matter of entering the Website address and choosing which protocols to use such as HTTP and PING.

After you’ve created a monitor, the control panel gives you quick access to various components, as well as providing nice graphical information about site status and problems.

After a month of monitoring, the same control panel showed a whole list of status updates, including errors and warnings that helped us track down a few problems we were unaware of.

Monitoring a MySQL instance was equally easy to set up, after we installed the agent software on the server. Here we chose the server; this information was gleaned from the running agents.

Next we provided the username and password for the MySQL instance that the agent was monitoring. This information was entered while logged into our control panel on the Anturis site.

Anturis provides a large list of MySQL metrics to monitor. You can monitor as many metrics as you want, but can see a chart for only one.

Immediately after starting the monitor, we were informed of some tuning issues with our MySQL installation.

Once running, we could also see the MySQL problems listed in the GUI’s data log.