RRDtool BASH scripts¶ ↑

These are BASH scripts using RRDtool to generate the following graphs:

• Network interface usage

• Memory usage

• Nginx requests

This data could be useful for monitoring your linode.

Released under the Simplified BSD License, feel free to redistribute or alter. You’re welcome to contribute your own rrdtool bash scripts.

Crontab example¶ ↑

You could add this to your www-data user’s crontab.

*/5 * * * * /bin/bash /var/scripts/network.sh
*/5 * * * * /bin/bash /var/scripts/memory.sh
*/5 * * * * /bin/bash /var/scripts/requests.sh

Nginx config example¶ ↑

Enables Nginx’s status page

location /status {
  stub_status on;
  access_log off;
  allow 127.0.0.1;
  deny all;
}

License¶ ↑

Copyright 2010 Frode Petterson. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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