Monitoring Tools?

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Greetings,

Kudos on a fantastic project - having had experience setting up a full email server before Mail-In-a-Box seriously takes away headaches.

I would like to setup some sort of monitoring for my server (I have about 15 family members now using my server and I want to be proactive in keeping it up) something along the lines of munin, nagios, zabbix, etc.

Any suggestions or thoughts on which might be easier to setup with Mail-in-a-Box given the custom configuration of nginx?

Regards,
Steven

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Hey thanks.

I don’t have any experience with any of those monitoring apps.

One thing I was thinking was to monitor the system status checks page in the admin and email the administrator whenever anything changed.

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Unless you really just want to roll your own, you might give https://nodequery.com/ a try. They let you monitor 5 servers for free.

Scott

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I think Munin should do the trick. Setting up Munin with Nginx is not a big deal.
I’ll try it soon and give you guys a heads up.

The question is : does the Nginx get overwritten on system upgrade? I’m not sure at the moment…

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/etc/nginx/conf.d/local.conf gets overwritten each time mailinabox is updated, yes.

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Yup, I figured that out the hard way ^^
But it’s not really an issue since nginx acknowledge any *.conf files whithin the folder /etc/nginx/conf.d

I got Munin running just fine, where should I submit a guide to help mailinabox users setup a munin instance?

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Here, or as a pull request on the repo if you think it would be useful to set it up for all Mail-in-a-Boxes.