Web Monitoring

[getUP]

What would be advised when monitoring websites? We have different host groups for different sets of servers, but rather than adding web monitoring to that hosts, I'd like to separate that so a clear overview remains.

We might monitor websites which are not on the servers we're currently monitoring and therefore a different group would be preferred. However, adding hosts to that group would be impossible as there would be none to monitor, only websites.

How are you guys doing this?

[dmarsh]

I'm interested in other peoples solutions to this as well.

I have to monitor several web sites, but only from a user experience point of view. I've been adding them under the "zabbix server" host as it's the one doing the http queries, but it would be nice to have their own section.

[laakness]

I too am doing what dmarsh mentioned and putting the checks under the Zabbix Server Host.

[getUP]

We have no agent running on the server, so how would I go on from here? I don't see the need of monitoring the Zabbix server by itself. There are other external tools to do that.

Any other solutions?

[laakness]

You shouldn't need an agent on the server. I just assign my web checks to the Zabbix server host item. That way all the web checks are listed under a single host.

You could even create a dummy host that has no items on it and then start assigning you external website checks from there.

[getUP]

I'm a bit confused by all the steps needed to monitor only 1 website.

- Host group
- Host
- Application

Why are all those parts required? Why can't we just have a host group for all the websites and add them within that group. That would've been more logical.

Is that just me? Or am I doing something terribly wrong?

[anrstone]

Not sure whether it helps but we run checks from 2 agents one that effectively is external to our main hosting estate (thus checking the sites are visible to the outside world and that the load balancers are working) and then we have local checks done on each web server to make sure that the site on each box is still working.