Linode Longview

Why is HN still tolerating this disgraceful excuse for a company ? Hacked twice. On both occasions deliberately withheld key information from their customers. Which as VPS providers is pretty much the most important thing they can do (i.e. be transparent about security issues).<p>It&#x27;s hilarious for me to watch the hyperbole about the CIA, NSA, Snowden etc and yet tolerate a more direct and clear abuse of privacy and security.

Unbelievable how much complaining there is this thread. This is a great, free addition to their service and is very well done for getting a quick overview of a server.

Munin seems like it would be a much better choice for most people -- both the server and the client are Free and it stores a year of data. What it doesn&#x27;t do is allow you to drill down into old data -- it&#x27;s only got static day, week, month and year graphs. You can graph pretty much anything, though.<p><a href="http://munin-monitoring.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;munin-monitoring.org&#x2F;</a>

Warning. If you have a high traffic server, Longview will eat up all your CPU. It has a function that iterates through all open file handles to find out which ones are network sockets in an O(n^2) loop. This loop never completed on my system. I had to kill the process and eventually disabled Longview.

&gt; Basic Longview is completely FREE and includes 5-minute data resolution and 30 minutes of data retention.<p>Surely Linode isn&#x27;t giving you an evaluation that handles 6 data points. What does the basic version actually do?

Just had it installed. It is much better than the standard log metrics they offer. However what is bothering me is that the whole installation is through a short URL.<p>curl -s <a href="https://lv.linode.com/aBcD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lv.linode.com&#x2F;aBcD</a> | sudo bash<p>Where aBcD is randomly generated. If you visit <a href="https://lv.linode.com/aBcD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lv.linode.com&#x2F;aBcD</a>, it contains not just the script to execute but also your API Key. How safe is it to expose your API Key?<p>Since the randomly generated value is only 4 characters long, it shouldn&#x27;t be hard to find other people&#x27;s API keys by brute forcing it.

Calling it open source is a bit dirty. The data slurping part is, but their stuff on the other end is completely proprietary and paid.

Seriously Linode? 30 minutes of data retention on the free version? You could have at least set it to 7 or even 3 days. 30 minutes is not nearly enough.

I always get a bit annoyed with paid versions that give you less things that the free version, the free version gives you 10 servers but if you take the first step of the paid, you only get 3.. (I know there is a difference in retention)

I hope you all know about Logstash &amp; Kibana, which seems like a superset of this. There is even a node.js version of logstash.

only 30 mins of data retention... even AWS gives you 2 weeks at 5min resolution for free (albeit only stuff the hypervisor can measure because they don&#x27;t run an agent, so no RAM etc).

I&#x27;m a fairly happy Linode customer and have been for 3 or so years. (Yes, security&#x2F;transparency could be better). We&#x27;ve got a nodebalancer and ~10 nodes. What longview lacks for me is a mechanism for notification &amp; alerts. The value of monitoring is only half the equation. Step two is something that either has sensible defaults or easily adjusted settings and notification when limits are exceeded or below acceptable limits. I don&#x27;t want to have to constantly watch longview to see a problem.<p>Anyone know if it provides this, or if there are better monitoring tools or services that do?

I&#x27;ve been beta testing Longview for a while. It&#x27;s been kind of nice to have. I most liked the at-a-glance visibility of whether there were any system package updates available.<p>The pricing structure is disappointing. I would have rather seen per system pricing ($3-5 mo&#x2F;server is roughly what it would be worth to me). I have 4-5 nodes running. I&#x27;ll likely never have 10 so $40&#x2F;mo doesn&#x27;t seem like a very good value proposition.

Without custom metrics (for example, via StatsD), I&#x27;m unable to use Longview to collect these &quot;Meaningful metrics&quot;. It may provide me with an overview of what a system does as a whole, but I definitely need custom events from my applications to show up in the same graphs for it to be useful.

I really want to try this, munin is awesome but I find quite hard to configure and some stats hard to understand, longview&#x27;s design seems much more friendly.

I find it really hard to care much about news from linode given their history with security and transparency...

Doesnt&#x27; seem to work with my cloud image of saucy: Unable to locate package linode-longview.

I wonder if they considered a partnership with New Relic instead of building this in-house.

Graphit with better UI?