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‎monitoring.html‎

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if there are stability, performance, or uptime issues with an application.</p>
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<h2>Open Source Monitoring Projects</h2>
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<h2>Open source monitoring projects</h2>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/etsy/statsd/">statsd</a> is a node.js network daemon that
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Graphite-based dashboard with added features and a slick design.</p>
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<p><a href="http://packetbeat.com/">PacketBeat</a> sniffs protocol packets then allows
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developers to visualize what's happening with an application.</p>
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<p><a href="http://packetbeat.com/">PacketBeat</a> sniffs protocol packets. Elasticsearch
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then allows developers to search the collected data and visualize what's
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happening inside their web application using the Kibana user interface.</p>
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<p><a href="http://munin-monitoring.org/">Munin</a> is a client plugin-based monitoring
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system that sends monitoring traffic to the Munin node where the data can
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be analyzed and visualized. Note this project is written in Perl so Perl 5
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<h2>Monitoring Resources</h2>
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<h2>Monitoring resources</h2>
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<p><a href="http://www.paperplanes.de/2011/1/5/the_virtues_of_monitoring.html">The Virtues of Monitoring</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://blog.serverdensity.com/how-to-design-useful-monitoring-graphs-and-visualizations/">How to design useful monitoring and graphing visualizations</a></p>
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<p>The Collector Highlight Series has an article on <a href="http://blog.librato.com/posts/statsd">StatsD</a>
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<h3>What topic do you want to learn next?</h3>
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‎source/content/pages/08-monitoring-analytics/0803-monitoring.markdown‎

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## Open Source Monitoring Projects
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## Open source monitoring projects
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* [statsd](https://github.com/etsy/statsd/) is a node.js network daemon that
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* [Graph Explorer](http://vimeo.github.io/graph-explorer/) by Vimeo is a
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* [PacketBeat](http://packetbeat.com/) sniffs protocol packets then allows
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* [Munin](http://munin-monitoring.org/) is a client plugin-based monitoring
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* [The Virtues of Monitoring](http://www.paperplanes.de/2011/1/5/the_virtues_of_monitoring.html)
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* [Effortless Monitoring with collectd, Graphite, and Docker](http://blog.docker.io/2013/07/effortless-monitoring-with-collectd-graphite-and-docker/)
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* The Collector Highlight Series has an article on [StatsD](http://blog.librato.com/posts/statsd)
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### What topic do you want to learn next?

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