Overview
Media Temple's Advanced Support subscription customers have access to advanced monitoring tools that allow you to easily keep up with your site's performance. To gain access to this panel and many other benefits, check out Advanced Support or contact our award winning 24/7 support.
The Media Temple Monitoring panel allows you to monitor the response time, activity and resource utilization on up to 5 of your domains. The sections below provide more information on enabling monitoring on a domain, accessing server statistical data, and understanding the data provided.
Adding a domain in the Monitoring panel
You can enable monitoring on multiple domains, however you must add each domain in your Monitoring panel before any statistical data will be recorded and available for viewing. You may use the steps listed below to enable monitoring on your domain.
- Log in to your Media Temple account center.
- Navigate to the Overview Page.
- Here, you will find the Monitoring panel. It will look similar to this.
- To add a domain to be monitored, click on the
icon in the Monitoring panel.
- Type the domain name in the field provided. Then click the + button.
- That's it! Your domain will now be monitored.
Accessing the Monitoring reports
(mt) Media Temple's monitoring also allows you access to a number of additional statistical graphs on a dedicated Monitoring reports page that details everything from Uptime to resource utilization.
Keep in mind that this tool only shows the statistics for one domain at a time. To view another domain you have added to the Monitoring panel, simply select it from the drop down menu. 
Server status alerts and notifications
To the left of your Monitoring page you will have the Server Status panel. It allows you to see alerts when your site becomes unavailable or when you're getting close to your server resources allocation limit. 
In this panel, you can see additional details for any alert by clicking on See issue history.
You can also set up email notification so that you or a contact is notified by email of this alert as well. To do this, click on Edit issue alerts. Then, enter the information for the contact that you wish to send notifications to and click CREATE CONTACT. 
Your statistical graphs
In addition to the Server Response Time, you have a number of different graphs that will display statistics gathered over time from your site. These are as follows:
- Memory: RAM percent usage
- Process: CPU percentage process - executable name only - mysqld
- Process: Memory percentage of processes - executable name - mysqld
- Process: CPU percentage of processes - executable name only - httpd
- Process: Memory percentage of processes - executable name - httpd
- Process: CPU percentage of processes - executable name only - nginx
- Process: Memory percentage of processes - executable name - nginx
- CPU: 1 minute CPU load average
- Process: Process is running - executable name only httpd
- Process: Process is running - executable name only - mysqld
- Innodb row lock current waits
- Innodb row lock time average
- Queries per second
- Slow queries per second
- MySQL connections
- CPU: I/O Wait Usage percentage
- Memory: Swap percent usage
- Memory: Cached
- Bandwidth: Kilobytes IN per second - venet0
- Bandwidth: Kilobytes OUT per second - venet0
- Bandwidth: Packets IN per second - venet0
- Bandwidth: Packets OUT per second - venet0
- CPU Usage percentage - Total
- Disk: Inodes percent used
- Disk: Disk space available
You can choose to view the data in an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly view for any of your domains. Just select any of your desired options from the drop down at the top of the Monitoring page. 
Once this is done, the statistical information in the graphs below will display the data you've selected. On the graphs you will see a number of plotted points. If you hover your cursor over one of these points it will provide data specific to that point on the timeline. 
You can also use your cursor to zoom in on a specific section by clicking in the graph and dragging across a portion of the timeline. This will narrow the graphs statistical data to show only the time that you have selected. 
To exit this view for a graph, click on the Reset zoom button that will have appeared. 
Removing a domain from Monitoring
The steps below will detail how to remove a domain from the Monitoring panel. Please be aware that all statistical data will be removed for any domain that is removed from the panel.
- Click on the icon in the Monitoring panel.
- Click on Remove to the right of the domain you wish to remove.
- Your domain is now removed from monitoring.
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