Author: Moss Gross

Recently a client of ours who used opsview to manage their resources needed to place some of their hosts into downtime in conjunction with some other cron-scheduled tasks. In order to implement that functionality, I created this simple script that…

Recently I’ve needed to get information from running Cassandra processes, in order to determine which parameters to monitor. jconsole can be used for this, however if you’re using a host on AWS, or in a bandwidth-limited environment, you might find…

At PalominoDB, we constantly evaluate new technologies and database options for our clients’ environments. NoSQL databases are especially popular right now, and Riak is an increasingly-recommended option for highly available, fault-tolerant scenarios. Moss Gross attended an introductory workshop, and shares…

One of the most desirable features of MongoDB is its ability to automatically recover from a failed node. Setting this up with AWS instances can raise challenges, depending on how you’re addressing your machines. We see many examples online of…

When starting to work with a new technology in a development or sandbox environment, we tend to run things  –  as much as possible – using their default settings.  This is completely understandable, as we’re not familiar with what all…

Nagios Check For Calculating Based on Mysql Server Variables Recently we needed to make a change for a client to one of our mysql monitoring tools so I thought it would be a good opportunity to highlight the tool and…