Absence of an organised and creative metrics analyser for servers.
In linux, there are two commands which serve the purpose of task manager; these are top and htop. However the output of these commands is not organised, neither interactive nor efficient in informing about all the processes.
The problems related to these commands are:
- System Overload: You may lose access to your server during system overload
- Time to live: The time to live for processes is very short and thus are often not displayed in the command output
- Speed of instance: These commands are highly dependent on the speed of instance
- Unresponsiveness: These commands don't work when the server is unresponsive
- Bottlenecks: Bottlenecks are not easily identifiable using these commands
We came up with the solution to analyse all these metrics in the form of graphs, charts and illustrations.
The people it would help:
- Sysadmins: Easier to monitor all the graphs and charts for a long time, using the primitive approach of top/htop would gradually increase the chance of error with time.
- Cloud Services: Cloud services like AWS, Digital Ocean can provide their users with a dashboard like ours so that its easier to keep track of everything running and the health of your instance/server.
- MNCs: MNCs have a lot of instances and a solution model like ours would provide an easier way to identify problems in their server.
- Developers/DevOps Engineers: It would make the life of developers easier by notifications about specific parameters.