Web site and server monitoring for free

 I operate multiple small web sites on Linux, Apache, Mysql, Php stack on the cheapest servers I can find. At the moment I have a server from Godaddy (costs ~USD10/month) which comes with no tools at all. 

I wanted to monitor the web sites and the server and I was also looking for a project to improve my Go skills so I started https://github.com/SBOsoft/SBOLogProcessor project as a command line tool that will generate metrics from web server access logs. 

As I worked on the tool, things got escalated and I decided to develop my own web site and server monitoring tool with a web UI named SBOanalytics. It is intentionally simple and lightweight but depending on demand I think I will consider adding more features. If you want to take a look a live demo is also available.

If you are wondering why you would use SBOanalytics instead of Google analytics? Tools like Google analytics give you a partial picture, they won't tell you anything about 

  • Bot traffic including AI bots (e.g if OpenAI is not visiting your web site then maybe you don't even exist)
  • Scanners (who is scanning, how often, how much of your resources are getting wasted for scanning and so on)
  • Failing requests, e.g how many 404 errors are your servers returning, maybe there are some broken links somewhere?
  • Also client side trackers will be missing information about people who reject cookies, use anti-trackers and similar

Download and test SBOanalytics free web site and web server metrics and monitoring tool and see it for yourself.

Obviously this tool is mainly for people running web sites on limited resources, like myself. If you are a corporate guy who likes to spend thousands for the simplest things then this tool won't cut it. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hello world!

Hello world! I'm Serkan. I will write about whatever that's bothering me at that time, don't expect much from me. These are my personal views, thoughts, ideas and has nothing to do with my current/past/future employers or anyone else.
Read more

Opinions on Go lang

Recently I developed my first go project, a command line tool for generating metrics from web server logs . It generates web site and server metrics and saves them into a mysql database, so it is definitely not a simple hello world application. After ~2 months with go, I wanted to summarize, what I liked and what I did not.  What I liked about Go Overall it was easy to work with. Considering the alternatives for developing a single executable that doesn't require a runtime environment installed.  Again, the effort for building a ~5MB single executable (that can read files, run operating system commands, write to mysql database etc in a multithreaded way) without any dependencies is minimal. Channels: Just awesome and really makes life easy. They are very easy to use.   Selects when used together with channels makes it really easy to implement otherwise complex scenarios Multiple return values: Not a critical feature but a nice to have Threading: Easy threading with g...
Read more