AboutUsPerformanceMonitoring
The responsiveness and performance of the site makes a big difference in how many pages visitors will view, and how often they will come back. A poorly performing site will also wear out our active members causing some of them to leave.
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Monitoring Resources Internally
We have chosen to try an open source performance monitoring tool called Zabbix [1]. Zabbix includes many features including the following.
- Real-time performance, availability, and integrity monitoring
- Web site monitoring
- Data visualization through use of graphs, maps, and user-defined views
- Condition notifications (including e-mail and jabber)
- Distributed monitoring and configuration
The AboutUs Zabbix site can be accessed here at the following URL:
https://admin.aboutus.org/zabbix/
The same credentials for the AboutUs stats can be used to log into Zabbix. Please contact the systems administrator if you require a personal user account.
Information Of Interest
The front page can be configured upon authentication under the user profile. A personal user account will not have a default front page configured by default. Items being monitored are called triggers.
The first view of interest is the Overview link under the Monitoring tab. The Overview is refreshed every 30 seconds and includes a dashboard view of all monitored items. Successful checks are presented with green boxes while potential problems show up as red. Grey and white boxes indicate items which have been disabled.