Use Nagios To Check Process Size And Provide Alerts Based on Process Megabyte Size
Nagios is an awesome open source application that provides a way to monitor pretty much anything that you can think of on your network. There are tons of plugins written for Nagios that will monitor anything from PostgreSQL database size to the number of users logged into a server. Today I needed to start monitoring the size of a Ruby process that has been growing out of hand so the below is what I came up with being the best solution. Follow the directions below to deploy a Perl script that will use SNMP to retrieve Linux server process size.