Drupalmonitor.com is a specialized tool for monitoring multiple Drupal sites, designed to simplify maintenance and improve service quality. It provides features such as status monitoring, alert notifications, and performance data analysis, while requiring only a single module installation. Future enhancements include better integration for alerts, reporting, and additional automation features.

1. drupalmonitor.com
A better place to monitor all your
Drupal sites in one place.
26. April @ Drupal UG Basel
lf@netnode.ch / @lukasfischer

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www.netnode.ch
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3. Why monitoring?
• Status “OK”
• “Houston we have a problem”

4. Our problem/solution (yesterday)
• Problem
• 70+ sites
• hosted on different servers
• D5/D6/D7
• Solution
• Munin for server monitoring
• no site monitoring
• Very rough “monitoring” with intranet

5. New problems/wishes
• Overall goal: Simplifing maintenance & service quality
• Status monitoring
• Are all sites up? If not, send an alert! Logs to see what happend!
• Updates hassle
• Module and core updates overview (what sites need action)
• Ideally the tool would recommend what to do
• Performance data
• How many request do we actually deliver?
• How many logged in users do we server?
• Automating checks
• Basic configurations done right? E.g. Caching enabled, etc.
• Cron runned?
• Automated Collected/Updated data
• How many D6/D7 sites?
• Server/System data (phpinfo)

6. Existing solution?
nope
well, a couple!

7. Option 1 - no monitoring
I don’t care about my site
NOPE...

8. Option 2 - client
Client calls you when site is NOK.
NOOPE...

9. Option 3 - manual checks
• cmd-r/F5
• update module/status page
• drupal.org/project/prod_check
• drupal.org/project/hacked
• drupal.org/project/hosting_stats
• drupal.org/project/variable_changes
http://www.drupalmonitor.com/blog/drupal-modules-that-help-you-monitor-drupal
NOOOOPE...
does not scale

10. Option 4 - contrib
http://drupal.org/project/nagios D6/D7 908 sites
http://drupal.org/project/munin D6 26 sites
http://drupal.org/project/cacti D6 5 sites
http://drupal.org/project/droptor D6/D7 881 sites
http://drupal.org/project/sentry_server D6 31
http://drupal.org/project/sentry_client D5/D6/D7 179
ok...
but not all wishes covered

11. Option 5 - Enterprise tools
• New Relic http://newrelic.com/ well ok...
• Groundwork http://www.gwos.com/ not Drupal specific...
• Zenoss http://www.zenoss.com/ expensive...
heavy...
• ...

12. Option 6 - Drupal tools
well ok...
• Acquia network (insights, SEO grader) not Drupal specific...
• Droptor expensive...
heavy...

13. Option 7 - drupalmonitor.com?
YES

14. Solution: drupalmonitor.com
• 100% Drupal focus
• A multiple site dashboard overview + detailed per
site report
• Simplicity
• One module to install on website (no dependencies)
• One monitoring service
• No additional server side software
DEMO
• no configuration

15. Version 1.7

16. Architecture drupalmonitor.com
API Report ALERTS
mysite.com
every 2 min
drupalmonitor.com DB CRAWLER othersite.com
immediately
greatsite.com
IMG RRD-Tool ALERTS
updated every 5 min

17. Version x.1.10
• 2 Level monitoring
• Simple HTTP check, Closing </html> tag check
• Extended Drupal monitoring (/drupalmonitor)
• Features
• Dashboard: Multisite overview
• List all sites with scores
• List Criticals
• Log entries of all sites
• Site
• Basic Summary + Some checks + Site Logs
• Module updates + Drush commands
• User RRD Graph
• Requests RRD Graph
• Files RRD Graph
• Slow Pages Table
• (Watchdog RRD Graph)

18. Next steps
• Put project on drupal.org
• Better interface
• Alerting & Notifications
• weekly reports per e-mail
• Better alerting
• Better Drupal problem score integration
• e.g. SEO checklist
• e.g. Performance checklist
• e.g. Security checklist

19. Future
• Ideas
• Source code check (is my site hacked?)
• Automated scripts/updates (e.g. access site
via ssh from drupalmonitor.com)?
• Backup Manager?
• Cron Job Manager?

20. Try! It’s free!
www.drupalmonitor.com

21. Help!
• I have some questions to you!
• Tweet about it
• Tell friends about it
• Use it and give feedback
• http://drupalmonitor.com/survey

22. Questions & Discussion
• Do you monitor your sites?
• How do you monitor your sites?
• What is the biggest issue on monitoring and
maintaining Drupal sites?
• How do you like the drupalmonitor.com
approach?

23. drupal pur
www.netnode.ch