There's an old DevOps story of a developer who, when asked by a member of the ops team why an app isn't running on the live servers, replies "It's just fine on my laptop". To which the only reply is ...

We are soon releasing PushMon, a free monitoring service for scripts, batches and jobs. The basic idea is that cron scripts will "ping" a URL on a regular basis, and will notify the user if this "ping ...

In the ever-evolving digital world, Linux servers form the backbone of enterprises, web applications, and cloud infrastructure. Whether hosting websites, databases, or critical applications, ensuring ...

For about a year, my company had been struggling to roll out a monitoring solution. False positives and inaccurate after-hours pages were affecting morale and wasting system administrators' time.

As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

I have been tasked at my new job for finding a way to monitor server space on our many servers, originally I thought of something like Spiceworks, but the lead programmer/admin for this wants ...

Cron processes, or "cron jobs," may be used to start and stop applications within a Linux or Unix operating system. You can create cron jobs to perform functions such ...