Monitoring

http://www.slideshare.net/adrianco/netflix-in-the-cloud-2011 Slides from Adrian Cockcorft, Netflix director of cloud systems about current state [for 2011] of Netflix’s AWS-based architecture

http://pgsql.tapoueh.org/site/html/news/20080131.bloat.html a “bloat” view - provides info postgresql tables that need a vacuum

http://files.agoragames.com/jason/railsconf09/ notes about [web] infrastructure monitoring from well-known game company (call of duty, gitar hero).

http://blogs.amd.co.at/robe/2008/12/graphing-linux-disk-io-statistics-with-munin.html tells you about a plugin (a perl script ) for munin that will collect linux disk IO stats and send it to munin for pretty graphs.

http://www.internetpulse.net/ website that monitors status of traffic exchange between Tier-1 providers

http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/07/22/watching-nginx-upstreams-with-collectd/ tells how to monitor nginx by tailing it’s logs using collectd. ( same can also be done with munin)

http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,1008,page=1 post on nginx forum that provides some insights about central logging / log collections

http://www.novell.com/communities/node/2640/xen-virtual-machine-monitor-plugin-nagios scripts that show nagious plugin

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-monitor-and-restart-linux-unix-service.html short howto about using ‘monit’ – daemon monitoring service

http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=13909 postgresql top and other similar monitoring tools for mysql, linux io, etc