Monitoring machine metrics with Graphite
I have a digital ocean machine that runs a lonely server on it. This server is just a hobby project so I can afford it to go down every now and then. Nevertheless I want to minimize the time it goes down and be able to identify the cause when it happens.
My initial effort in this direction will be to setup some monitoring on the machine that runs my server. More specifically, I want to see the memory, network, disk, and CPU utilization of the machine graphed over time. This doesn’t solve all my problems but is a first step into getting more insight into what is happening in my server’s environment.