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Tools for gathering metrics about physical environment for use in virtualization/cloud planning?

I'm looking for tools that will work on either Linux/Unix or Windows Server that for a given set of servers in an enterprise environent, will: Identify the server [via hostname, or some other unique ...
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Solution for graphing application events metrics in real time

We have an application that parses tweets and we want to see the activity in real time. We have tried several solution without success. Our main problems is that the graphing solution ...
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Measure impact of new software on Windows Server

I'm an admin for a small business. I've been asked to give another company my opinion on whether or not our servers have enough available resources to handle the addition of their software. I've had ...
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Tracking pixels, logging/recording impressions?

I'm trying to build a tracking server for banner ads that tracks the ad's impressions. I'm having some trouble with our accuracy. It appears we're missing maybe 20% of the impressions. I'm using a ...
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Alternative Ganglia interfaces?

I'm evaluating various metric collection systems and appreciate just about everything in Ganglia, except for the less than clean interface. Does anyone know of alternative Ganglia interfaces or ...
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Monitoring tools that can take high rate and high volume?

We're using Cacti with RRDTool to monitor and graph about 100,000 counters spread across about 1,000 Linux-based nodes. However, our current setup generally only gives us 5-minute graphs (with some ...
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I need to replace munin with something more scalable

I have used munin on multiple servers for many years with great success, however with more than 100 munin-nodes and when there is load on the clients, the processing is timing out. I have made some ...
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How to compare CDN services?

What are the metrics and their priorities to compare various CDN services?
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Sun Directory Server 5.2 performance

I'm using logconv.pl (provided by Sun), to measure performance on my server. These two metrics results, are worrying me a bit: Binds: 192164 Unbinds: ...
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Simple Webserver Metrics to Observe Gains from Refinements

I have just recently inherited a stack of servers running a large application on a fairly typical LAMP stack and I am trying to get my head around what metrics I need to watch while we begin to try to ...
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How to compare CPUs?

What are the metrics and their priorities to compare task specific performance of various CPUs?
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Reporting Services 2008 SSRS usage metric reporting

We use web trends to track the usage of our web sites, but web trends is currently not capable of reading the logs produced by SSRS 2008. Has anyone figured out a way to modify the file so that web ...
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Configuration Rmetric with Rcov in hudson error

When I attempt to save a job that runs code coverage tests and is configured to publish an rcov report I get the error message listed below and the changes I made aren't saved. This problem cropped up ...
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server performance metrics report and practicality

I have a need of preparing web server (apache-php) performance report containing important metrics like CPU usage, disk io, memory usage on user basis. Couple of domains are hosted in the same server ...
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Server 2008, 2 NICs, 2 fixed IPs - big delays using internet

I have an all in one Windows 2008 server, configured with AD/DHCP/DNS/RRAS - all set up with wizards and no specific tweaking. The server has 2 network adapters : one of which ("MyWAN") is plugged ...
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Exchange 2007: Is there a way to get average number of attachements per day by file type?

I'm curious about the file formats of attachments moving through an Exchange 2007 mail environment. For instance the number of .doc vs. .docx files on average. Exchange Profile Analyzer seems more ...
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Looking for a recommendation on measuring a high availability app that is using a CDN

I work for a Fortune 500 company that struggles with accurately measuring performance and availability for high availability applications (i.e., apps that are up 99.5% with 5 seconds page to page ...
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Figures on data usage through various Internet protocols?

Given this list of protocols used by the internet does anyone know any way of getting information on the amount of data (or any other usage metrics) for various ones?
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Is it possible to find information on apache_mod_php processes under /proc?

I have an apache2 server with apache2_mod_php installed. Is there a way for me to determine from the information under /proc (or elsewhere), which apache processes are currently executing the php ...
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Tracking Apache by VirtualHost

I have an apache webserver running many VirtualHosts. Recently it has been bogging down and becoming unresponsive, and I'm wondering how I can determine which VirtualHosts are causing most of the ...
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Dealing with redundant Ethernet and WiFi under Windows

What happens under Windows (XP Pro SP3, specifically) when you have multiple network interfaces configured on the same subnet, like when your ethernet is plugged in and your WiFi is active at the same ...
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ASP Classic Website Usage Metrics

We have a ASP Classic Web site Running on IIS 6. What is the cleanest way to record the number concurrent users? We need this data over a period of time, and a way to sum it across servers would be ...
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How to define appropriate measurements for a Service Level Agreement?

I work for a small development house who are increasingly being asked to put together formal SLAs for our products based on particular configurations. From a development side of things I'm ...
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Measure data transfer throughput?

How can I benchmark the network transfer speed of my servers? We already have an existing file server, but it is fairly old. We recently got a donation of a (relatively) newer P4 box, and I wanted to ...
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When to move a virtualized server to physical?

Virtualization has some great benefits, but there are times when a virtualized server needs more performance and should be moved to physical. My question is, how do you tell when these times are? I'm ...
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LAMP monitoring by zabbix

Someone have experience with lamp monitoring ? I mean standard monitoring and slow queries monitoring for mysql, virtual hosts load as well. And alerting if something going not well. Cacti is very ...
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How to judge our scale as a metric for what kind of hosting service I need?

We have a worldwide nonprofit organization which receives a modest amount of traffic (or at least I figure it's modest but I have little to compare against -- enter SF) How do I determine what scale ...
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What tools are available to capture and report system (application, database and sys) metrics?

I'm looking at setting up a tool for collecting usage data and KPIs from multiple systems on various platforms. We'd like to regularly report on key indicators on system usage and health. It doesn't ...