Monx Monitoring System V3

What is Monx?

• Monx is a monitoring system oriented on webservices and IoT devices. Currently its an ongoing project still being developed

Monx in Action

• Intuitive dashboard

• Notifications

• List of services

• Easy to edit services

Installtion

Install nodejs ( from their installation script or by your own way )

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt-get install nodejs

Install pm2:

$ npm install -g pm2

Install nodemon:

$ sudo npm install -g nodemon

Install nginx

  $ wget http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key
  $ sudo apt-key add nginx_signing.key

For Debian replace codename with Debian distribution codename, and append the following to the end of the /etc/apt/sources.list file:

  deb http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ codename nginx
  deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ codename nginx

For Ubuntu replace codename with Ubuntu distribution codename, and append the following to the end of the /etc/apt/sources.list file:

  deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ codename nginx
  deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ codename nginx

Then we update the repos and install as follows:

  $ apt-get update
  $ apt-get install nginx

Configure nginx: Generate a certificate with letsencrypt and crate the following file in /etc/nginx/sites-available/monxSSL as follows:

        server {
            listen 443;
                ssl    on;
                ssl_certificate    /etc/ssl/ceftikata/monx.crt;
                ssl_certificate_key    /etc/ssl/ceftikata/monx.key;

            server_name  www.monx.me;

            location / {
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
                proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_http_version 1.1;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
            }
        }

Then we:

  $ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/monx /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
  $ sudo service nginx restart

Install redis

  $ sudo apt-get install build-essential
  $ sudo apt-get install tcl8.5
  $ cd /usr/local/src
  $ sudo wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-stable.tar.gz
  $ sudo tar xzf redis-stable.tar.gz
  $ sudo cd redis-stable
  $ sudo make
  $ sudo make install
  $ sudo ./utils/install_server.sh
  $ sudo service redis_6379 restart

Install rabbitmq (on debian )

$ cd ~
$ sudo echo "deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
$ wget https://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc
$ sudo apt-key add rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc
$ sudo apt-get -y install rabbitmq-server

Install mongo

Clone the repo

$ git clone git@github.com:aglipanci/monx.git

Install the npm libraries

$ cd monx
$ npm install

Alter the configs in the config dir according to the sample:

    module.exports = {
            debug : true,
            api_url: 'http://localhost:3000/api/',
            email: {
                    service: 'Gmail',
                    auth: {
                            user: '',
                            pass: ''
                    },
                    from: 'Monx <... @... >'
            },
            // for remote redis:
            // redis: {
            //   url: 'redis://user:pass@localhost:6379'
            // },
            rabbitmq: {
                    url: 'amqp://localhost',
            },
            mongodb: {
                    url: 'mongodb://<USER>:<PASS>@mongo_db_host|localhost:31882/noprod'
            },
            logs: {
                    app: true,
                    api: true,
                    blacklist: true,
                    https_tatus: true,
                    ping: true,
                    checker: true,
                    emmiter: true,
                    emmiter_lib: true,
                    processor: true,
                    mailer: true,
                    model_services: true
            }
    }