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System downtime monitoring and reporting tool

Why is it so easy to find out the server uptime, but so difficult to figure out the downtime?

downtimed is a program for monitoring operating system downtime, uptime, shutdowns and crashes and for keeping record of such events.

downtimed(8) is a daemon process which is intended to be started automatically from system boot scripts every time when the operating system of a server starts. First the daemon logs its findings about the previous downtime to a specified logging destination as well as in a database file which can be displayed with downtimes(1) command.

Thereafter the downtimed(8) daemon just keeps waiting in the background and periodically updates a time stamp file on the disk. The time stamp is used to determine the approximate time when the system was last up and running. In case of a graceful system shutdown it records a stamp to another file on the disk. These files are used for reporting the next time the daemon starts.

downtimes(1) is a command-line tool which can be used to inspect previous downtime records recorded in the downtime database file.

This sofware works on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X and Solaris based operating system distributions. It can be ported to other modern UNIX-like operating systems relatively easily. The software is available under Simplified BSD license.

Please see the README file for more information.


NameLast modifiedSizeDescription
NEWS 2016-05-24 5 KiB version history
README.html 2016-05-24 515 KiB downtimed README document for browser display (HTML)
README.md 2016-05-24 9 KiB downtimed README document (markdown)
downtimed-0.1.tar.bz2 2010-05-22 72 KiB downtimed distribution (bzip2 compression)
downtimed-0.1.tar.gz 2010-05-22 88 KiB downtimed distribution (gzip compression)
downtimed-0.2.tar.gz 2010-09-22 95 KiB downtimed distribution (gzip compression)
downtimed-0.2.tar.xz 2010-09-22 72 KiB downtimed distribution (xz compression)
downtimed-0.3.tar.gz 2010-10-26 95 KiB downtimed distribution (gzip compression)
downtimed-0.3.tar.xz 2010-10-26 73 KiB downtimed distribution (xz compression)
downtimed-0.4.tar.gz 2010-12-25 97 KiB downtimed distribution (gzip compression)
downtimed-0.4.tar.xz 2010-12-25 74 KiB downtimed distribution (xz compression)
downtimed-0.5-manual.pdf 2011-03-02 8 KiB downtimed(8) manual page as PDF
downtimed-0.5.tar.gz 2011-03-02 104 KiB downtimed distribution (gzip compression)
downtimed-0.5.tar.xz 2011-03-02 79 KiB downtimed distribution (xz compression)
downtimed-0.6-manual.pdf 2013-07-27 8 KiB downtimed(8) manual page as PDF
downtimed-0.6.tar.gz 2013-07-27 106 KiB downtimed distribution (gzip compression)
downtimed-0.6.tar.xz 2013-07-27 83 KiB downtimed distribution (xz compression)
downtimed-1.0-manual.pdf 2016-05-24 25 KiB downtimed(8) manual page as PDF
downtimed-1.0.tar.gz 2016-05-24 116 KiB downtimed distribution (gzip compression)
downtimed-1.0.tar.xz 2016-05-24 89 KiB downtimed distribution (xz compression)
downtimed-screenshot-1.png 2010-09-22 24 KiB downtimed screenshot
downtimes-0.5-manual.pdf 2011-03-02 6 KiB downtimes(1) manual page as PDF
downtimes-0.6-manual.pdf 2013-07-27 6 KiB downtimes(1) manual page as PDF
downtimes-1.0-manual.pdf 2016-05-24 21 KiB downtimes(1) manual page as PDF

New versions

A list of changes in each version is available in the NEWS file included in the distribution.

A detailed view of every change in the development tree is available at the GitHub repository.

Articles

Ports and binary packages

The following operating system and distribution specific ports and packages are available. Consider using one of them if one exists already for your operating system and distribution. Using a tailored port/package makes installation and upgrading easy.

Development version

  • The development version of this software is available at GitHub. You can get your own copy of the development source tree with Git VCS with the following command:
    git clone https://github.com/snabb/downtimed.git