Assurer le bon fonctionnement des systèmes Linux critiques de votre entreprise est un véritable défi. Lorsque les goulets d'étranglement des performances et les possibilités de réglage se présentent, il est trop tard - vos utilisateurs sont déjà affectés par la lenteur ou le manque de réactivité de votre site web ou de votre application. Cela exaspère vos utilisateurs et vous coûte de l'argent.
Vos systèmes Linux génèrent des données - des données qui peuvent s'avérer extrêmement précieuses pour vos tâches d'administrateur système. Des données qui peuvent vous aider à éliminer les goulets d'étranglement et à éviter les temps d'arrêt. Des données qui peuvent vous aider à prendre des décisions sur la répartition de la charge afin de garantir un fonctionnement plus efficace des systèmes. Des données qui vous aident à mieux vous préparer aux pics de trafic inattendus et à prendre des décisions plus éclairées pour l'avenir, en utilisant les données du passé. Nous avons entrepris de créer un outil d'analyse pour résoudre ce problème. Le résultat : Longview.
Présentation de Longview
Longview est un nouveau service de collecte de statistiques et de création de graphiques. Il enregistre toutes les mesures au niveau du système et les affiche dans des graphiques zoomables attrayants. Longview permet d'avoir une vision instantanée de l'utilisation des ressources de vos serveurs et de repérer les tendances dans des domaines tels que l'unité centrale, la mémoire, le réseau et les processus.
Vous pouvez obtenir une vue d'ensemble de votre parc ou vous concentrer sur un serveur particulier pour afficher des informations détaillées sur les processus en cours, les services en écoute, les connexions actives et les mises à jour disponibles. Il vous permet de surveiller les entrées/sorties de disque et le trafic réseau, et bien d'autres choses encore. Et tout cela a une allure absolument incroyable !
Installation
L'agent Longview est open-source et peut être installé sur n'importe quel système Linux pris en charge - il n'est pas nécessaire qu'il s'agisse d'un Linode. Les distributions prises en charge sont les suivantes : Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, et Fedora. Il existe également une distribution tarball du client pour les enfants les plus cool.
L'installation automatique est facile - il suffit de se connecter au Linode Manager, de cliquer sur l'onglet Longview, de cliquer sur "Ajouter un client" et de copier/coller la commande d'installation en une ligne dans n'importe quel système Linux pris en charge. En quelques instants, vos graphiques commenceront à se remplir. L'agent longview utilise les outils de gestion de paquets de votre système, il est donc facile de le mettre à jour et/ou de le supprimer par la suite.
Quel est le coût ?
Basic Longview est totalement GRATUIT et comprend une résolution des données en 5 minutes et une conservation des données en 30 minutes.
La mise à niveau de votre compte vers Longview Pro vous permet de bénéficier d'une résolution à la minute près et d'une conservation illimitée des données :
- Jusqu'à 3 serveurs : 20 $/mois
- Jusqu'à 10 serveurs : 40 $/mois
- Jusqu'à 40 serveurs : 100 $/mois
- Jusqu'à 100 serveurs : 200 $/mois
Vous trouverez plus d'informations sur la page du produit Longview et sur l 'article Longview de la bibliothèque Linode. Nous vous souhaitons beaucoup de plaisir !
Commentaires (27)
Since this works on non-linode systems, does that mean I can install this on my Raspberry Pi at home?
Yes, we just rolled support for ARM systems. Please give it a shot!
Completely replaced Copperegg with this monitoring (and I happen to like it a lot better). Thanks Linode. 🙂
This is nice and cool and certainly useful but I’m a bit disappointed by the price structure, it’s a bit steep to have to pay US$20 if you have only 1 or 2 instances.
The free version is barely enough to wet your appetite: 30 minutes of retention is really not much to make it useful, by the time you notice something strange has happened, it’s already gone.
Not trying to be difficult — but why would I use Longview at the free level when it only provides 30 minutes of data when I could use New Relic (obviously the biggest competitor here) at the free level they provide 24 hours of data? I don’t follow how 30 minutes of historical data is really going to be all that convincing at the free level.
Ubuntu 13.04 is still not supported? Installed without any errors, but don’t see any data.
Setting up linode-longview (1.0.0) …
* Starting Longview Agent longview [ OK ]
System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/longview already exist.
@Endijs Lisovskis: It is supported! Please open up a ticket if you’re having problems and we’ll get right on it.
Longview Pro is priced very competitively. Look around.
We had to start somewhere with Longview free, and this is what we came up with. It may (or may not) change in the future, but at least starting low gives us the opportunity increase what you get with the free version.
Regardless, this is just version 1.0, and many additional features are planned.
@xxdesmus Good question. Would like to see some case studies too.
How does this affect Longview Pro beta users?
I just installed Longview Agent to my local ubuntu server. It works very well.
One for a Linode still has no restriction. Switch to free soon?
And any plan to open-source Longview Server as well as Agent?
I was just curious if you guys had built this with accessibility in mind. For example for us blind folks who can’t see graphs, seeing a text version of the stats would be awesome, maybe with some statistics to go along with it.
Any chance you are going to revisit Linode Managed pricing to do a similar kind of pricing structure? We are still interested, but unfortunately not at anywhere near the $1600-2000 per month it’s going to cost us based on having 16-20 smallish nodes.
I have one linode instance,the free version is enough for me.
I agree with @xxdesmus. The 30-minute retention on the free version doesn’t make any sense. It’s gone by the time you’re able to view it. Why putting in effort to implement it, if the metrics are barely there.
I think 24 hours of retention is reasonable to do with free. For people with on 1-2 nodes, it’s good enough. For bigger customers it’s a stepping stone to see if it fits the needs and upgrade instantly to pro.
Any chance for some docs on how the agent interacts with the dashboard, and what exactly thr dashboard does with this data?
I installed it. Tried it. and… another me too behind @xxdesmus … 30-min is useless to help understand if Longview provides me the view of my system(s) I need in order to evaluate if it would be worth upgrading to the pro version.
I installed Longview and it looked nice but what can one do with 30 minutes? As per the suggestion in the comments above, I installed New Relic’s PHP and OS agents and now I have 24 hour retention. Let’s face it, we’re not all running big companies off our Linodes.
I guess Longview makes sense if you need more than the 24 hours retention, in which case it’s cheaper than New Relic:
Longview: 1-3 servers for $20/mo
New relic: 1 server for $50/mp ($25/mo with annual commitment)
2 servers? $100/50. 3 servers? $150/75.
To be fair to New Relic, they do have special pricing to SMBs, and will contact you when you sign-up. Still, as Caker said, this is a v1.0 for Longview, and as we know, all 1.0 products can only improve. 🙂
As a new-relic and server density customer, I find the Longview offering very competitive and something that I will be investing in.
It would be nice if we could see disk space as a percentage of available capacity on the dashboard screen.
http://www.bijk.com – $11mth for 1 server, including 15 SMS notifications and 12mths retention. You’ll have to do better longview.
24 hours would be the sweet spot here.
Linode, thank you for new feature, but I would agree with others, who say that 30 min is useless.
I have just 1 linode for now + backup plan and I think it’s too much for me for Longview Pro.
Btw, talking about munin and Relic, do you plan to have metrics for nginx/apache/mysql/php?
Thnx.
Just wanted to add that LongView now offers 12 hours of data for the free plan.
I was JUST ABOUT to skip installing it after reading all the complaints about how 30 minutes is useless – you guys should update this post!
I have followed steps for installation of longview
but when i paste “curl -s https://lv.linode.com/Xnt2 | sudo bash” (changed) it giving me error like
-bash: curl: command not found
sudo: unable to resolve host .
Please tell me the solution.
Note I have replaced the key from my Linode in above command
You’ll need to install curl to fix that issue, and correctly set your hostname to fix the second. Details on setting your hostname can be found here:
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/getting-started/#sph_setting-the-hostname
Someone mentioned this above.
It would be nice if we could see disk space as a percentage of available capacity on the dashboard screen.
I agree – would be great. Our linodes have had full disks on a number of occasions.