BlurMonitor

Web Based Remote Performance Monitoring

BlurMonitor is a web based performance monitoring tool for Linux systems based on the BlurAdmin Template

It may work on other POSIX systems, but this is untested.

Currently the tool can be used to monitor the following information:

• PAM authentication
• Processor model
• Processor clock speed on variable clock speed models
• Processor utilization
• Memory utilization
• Swap utilization
• Mount points and disk utilization
• External IP address
• Network interfaces and bindings
• Client-resolvable bandwidth
• Live server bandwidth utilizaiton
• Reverse traceroute to client
• The top processor hungry tasks
• The top memory hungry tasks
• All running tasks and their relationships

Features from BlurAdmin

• Responsive layout
• High resolution
• Bootstrap CSS Framework
• Sass
• Gulp build
• AngularJS
• Jquery
• Charts (Chart.js)
• etc

Requirements

• Node.js with NPM
• Gulp
• Bower
• cat
• lsb_release
• dig command through the dnsutils package
• free
• ps
• traceroute
• ifstat
• libpam0g-dev (for PAM authentication)

Installation

1. Ensure all necessary commands are installed through your distro's package manager:

   Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install -y dnsutils traceroute ifstat libpam0g-dev
   

2. Install the latest version of Node.js for your operating system.
3. Ensure that NPM is up to date:

   sudo npm install -g npm
   

4. Install bower and gulp:

   sudo npm install -g bower gulp
   

5. Install NPM dependencies:

   npm install
   

6. Install Bower dependencies:

   bower install
   

7. Perform a build:

   gulp build
   

8. Serve the fully assembled project:

   node ./blurmonitor
   

The server will launch on port 3201 by default, or you can reference the command line flags.

A proxy server through Apache or NGINX is recommended for production environments.

Sample Apache configuration:

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-blur.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerName blur.mydomain.com

	# Disable compression for the bandwidth test. All other requests are already compressed.
	SetEnv no-gzip 1

	ProxyRequests On
	ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:3201/
</VirtualHost>

Command Line Flags

Port (-p)

	node ./blurmonitor -p 3201

Environment (-e)

The environment can be either prod (default) or dev.

	node ./blurmonitor -e dev

	node ./blurmonitor -e prod

Issues

Please report issues and enhancements. This is a project seeking to change and grow!

License

MIT license.

Art Licenses

Included icons are courtesy of the former Flattr icon project: https://github.com/NitruxSA/luv-icon-theme

Additional icons courtesy of KDA Web Technologies: http://icons.kdaweb.com/

Original project icons used when no other substitute could be found. If there are any copyright concerns, please issue a pull request and the offending artwork will be removed.