[Flounder] VPS performance

[DL Neil]

Thanks for this.

You'll (not) be surprised that shortly after I sent-in a grump, VPS
response-time improved.
Theory: they weren't watching their own logs...

Have added NewRelic to list of things to investigate...


On 07/04/2022 10.32, Ian Brown via Flounder wrote:
> I have used a few different ones over the years. But I will stick to the
> most recent ones I have used in a Corporate/Enterprise environment.
> 
> I currently have NewRelic APM (free account) running on some software I
> have built (Ruby on Rails). This is an awesome tool for showing the last
> 30 days of application performance and any errors or latency issues that
> arise within the application. If you need more than 30 days worth of
> stats, you will need to pay for the tool. NR also does infrastructure
> monitoring, however I find it very expensive compared to others in the
> market.
> 
> If you just want generic server ping time monitoring, then either
> pingdom.com <http://pingdom.com> (paid) or a Nagios machine that runs a
> simple tcp connection to the website every x seconds would suffice.
> Nagios can do a lot of stuff which is why it is my go-to for server
> performance monitoring.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ian
> 
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 8:09 AM DL Neil via Flounder
> <flounder at lists.linux.org.au <mailto:flounder at lists.linux.org.au>> wrote:
> 
>     I am wondering if the performance of a couple of my (European) VPSes
>     have (consistently) degraded in recent times.
> 
>     There may be many reasons. Some related to work-load (which hasn't
>     really changed, ignoring the vagaries of email transactions and
>     web-visitors). The ones that concern are related to the
>     service-provider's fabric - yet not wishing to blame them for issues on
>     the Internet between 'here' and 'there'...
> 
>     What tool(s) do you use to monitor and record response-time, eg several
>     times per day, over months?


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