ngxtop
Infrastructure
web server monitoring
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
3 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, cool tool for watching Nginx.
From 3 comments
This is nice, congrats! Would also like some performance metrics, or at least exec time per script
jmngomes on HNVery cool put it on pypi it will be useful with my blogs in aws
dougcorrea on HNI think this is a great idea. Very useful, thank you.
jedicoffee on HN
Objections
Clears the screen on every run and hides crash backtraces; ncurses suggested.
From 1 comment
Very cool tool. It seems to be clearing the screen every time it runs though which isn't great, especially when it crashes that hides the backtrace. Consider using ncurses? On a…
scrollaway on HN
Python 2 only; does not run on Python 3.
From 2 comments
Very cool tool. It seems to be clearing the screen every time it runs though which isn't great, especially when it crashes that hides the backtrace. Consider using ncurses? On a…
scrollaway on HNSeems like it was made with 2. Will not run on 3.
sc00ty on HN
Log file option was broken and has since been fixed in master.
From 2 comments
Doesn't seem to like to read the logs : ./ngxtop.py -l /opt/nginx/logs/access.log ## just pretends like the log is not being written to For some reason the access log file is…
diziet on HNThere was a bug that was overwriting --access-log (-l) option. Should be fixed now in master
bndr on HN
No resource consumption or performance figures; high CPU use on busy servers.
From 2 comments
Am I the only one that bothered when tools like this do not give you some insight on resource consumption/limit? Even if it's just parsing logs via sqlite, I still want to see…
korzun on HNThe performance impact really depend on your server and traffics. Currently with high traffic server it will take quite some amount of CPU if running for awhile, after 15-20 mins…
lebinh on HN
Requests
Support Python 3.
From 1 comment
Very cool tool. It seems to be clearing the screen every time it runs though which isn't great, especially when it crashes that hides the backtrace. Consider using ncurses? On a…
scrollaway on HN
Publish on PyPI.
From 2 comments
Very cool put it on pypi it will be useful with my blogs in aws
dougcorrea on HNCool! Why is this not on pypi?
sebslomski on HN
Average request serving time metrics.
From 2 comments
This is nice, congrats! Would also like some performance metrics, or at least exec time per script
jmngomes on HNYes, an average serving time per resource request would definitely be nice :)
jmngomes on HN
Installation instructions.
From 1 comment
Looks cool! Installation instructions would be a nice plus
KevinBongart on HN
Port to Lua and embed in Nginx.
From 1 comment
How about porting it to LUA and embed directly in nginx?
kureikain on HN
Questions
Why is it not on PyPI?
From 1 comment
Cool! Why is this not on pypi?
sebslomski on HN
Which Python version does it need?
From 1 comment
Does it matter which version of python we use?
ProAm on HN
Alternatives named
Apachetop
From 1 comment
For those who didn't know about it, please check Apachetop: https://github.com/JeremyJones/Apachetop I use it for both Apache and Nginx.
babuskov on HN
htop
From 1 comment
The only other top I know of is htop http://hisham.hm/htop/ but I don't think that's what you're looking for
bearlikelion on HN
GoAccess
From 1 comment
could it be go access? http://goaccess.prosoftcorp.com/
brickcap on HN
Scout realtime dashboard
From 1 comment
Fulfills the browser aspect of the question...this? http://scoutapp.github.io/scout_realtime/
nullwagon on HN
Varnishtop
From 1 comment
Nice. You can get similar for any HTTP interface via Varnish and Varnishtop, if you're interested, as well.
cheald on HN