April 9th, 2010
Munin, hither come
We've added a couple more articles to our series on munin. The first covers munin monitoring additional slices beyond the master slice, and the second involves enabling munin plug-ins to monitor additional services on a slice. Both links below lead to overview pages that point to distribution-specific instructions.
Installing additional munin nodes
The next munin article will cover downloading new plug-ins, as well as customizing the hosts list on a munin reports page.
Since there's been a lot of talk about the iPad this week I thought I should mention that I don't plan to buy one, but would happily accept one as a gift. That said, I will be hanging a stocking over my chimney with care, in the hopes that the Vernal Equinox Fairy soon will be there. And will give me a popular gadget to celebrate the coming of spring.
Hey, a fellow can dream. And try to start a new holiday tradition too!
As always, our friendly and knowledgeable support staff are waiting in SliceChat for your questions, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They also accept iPads. Though let's face it, they also accept sandwiches, they aren't picky.
Thanks for reading!
April 10th, 2010 at 04:20 AM Tim
Based on the article title, “Memory, hither come”, I thought Slicehost was giving out free RAM.
You might want to change the title to “Munin, hither come”.
April 10th, 2010 at 08:39 AM Richard Cunningham
I thought that too! In fact why don’t the prices of slices come down over time? Servers are still getting more cores and memory than in the past for the money.
April 10th, 2010 at 02:24 PM Jered
Aw, sorry to lead you on there. “Munin” means “memory” in old Norse, so the title was meant to be a play on words. You’re right, though, a change of title would cause less false hope.
I can’t speak to the pricing of slices since I just deal in support. Sorry for the non-answer, I just didn’t want you to think the question was being ignored. I do know management reads the comments (though they can’t always reply to them – business decisions might be still under discussion, that sort of thing), so I can say the concern will be registered with them.