Working with Monitoring

To access the Monitoring page, go to Rule Management | Monitoring.

This page is the central management area for defining the conditions by which events are generated (as displayed in Monitor | Events).

Monitoring and management capabilities let you quickly detect, analyze and fix errors reducing time-to-resolution and avoiding costly downtime.

Creating Events

Event generation is an out-of-the-box feature. On installation, the Monitor component begins to collect and report information about events, according to the Monitor's default settings. The resulting events are displayed in Monitor | Events. To further enhance monitoring effectiveness, event thresholds can be customized. In a similar manner, thresholds can be gradually modified to not only reflect improvements in performance, but also to verify that problematic issues have been resolved.

Configuring Events

Events can be configured according to each environment’s specific requirements. The main configuration changes that should be performed relate to tuning rule values and defining a list of functions and PHP errors to monitor.

The following procedure describes how to configure event rules

To configure event rules:

Go to Rule Management | Monitoring.
Select a rule from the list. Hovering over the information icon displays a description of the selected event and the event’s parameters.
Click Edit to change the default settings according to your requirements.
Each event type has different configuration options suited to the nature of the event.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save to save changes.

The new settings are applied after you click Restart PHP.

To return to the main Monitoring page, click Cancel, Save or use your browser's Back button.

See Edit Rule (Monitoring) for more information about rule settings.

Disabling Event Rules

In some cases, there may be events that are either not applicable to your system or unnecessary. Events are disabled from the Monitor page. When an event is disabled, the event is not monitored and information is not stored for the event.

To disable event rules:

Go to Rule Management | Monitoring.
Select a rule from the list. Hovering over the information icon displays a description of the selected event and the event’s parameters.
Click Disable to stop the Monitor from collecting and reporting information relevant to this event type.

This event type is no longer monitored.