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Monitoring and Logging best practices


!Friendica Support Hi! Now that I have both a NAT ingress router and a pfsense reverse proxy in front of my Friendica instance and the whole thing in a DMZ separate from my work, I feel confident that I could allow other users onto my instance. But before I can do that, I need to be sure that I can support the system when problems occur without having to spend too much time. What interests me in this connection is if there are any good monitoring practices and solutions - scripts or web views or the like - that would alert me about any abnormal conditions such as errors in the log files, sharp traffic increases, overload siutations and the like. Also a todo list of things to check manually once in a while maybe. Oh and automated backup of the configuration (including user accounts and their contributions) of course! I want to be a responsible admin :-).

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in reply to Tobias Ernst

We have got an endpoint that can be called by external monitoring services like Zabbix. There you have a lot of data, like the number of unprocessed tasks, worker jobs per minute, date of the last cron execution and a lot more. With some rules you should be able to react early, when the system would had a hiccup.

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