Create a PHP static Page to Show NodeQuery Monitoring Server Status

Nodequery stopped the service since Sep 2021

I am using NodeQuery free service (10 nodes) to monitor my VPS servers in the cloud for quite a few time now. It is one of my favorite monitoring tools , which is meeting most of my requirements: cloud, light weight, fast, enough detail. If I have to say one thing to improve , that would be Windows agent. It does not support Windows machine. NodeQuery is a cloud monitoring tool only for Linux servers. It can easily monitor linux server's CPU, memory, bandwidth, hard drive and history status. Users only need to install a light weight client on their own servers with one line auto-generated command, and you can see intuitively nice server status image in a few minutes (usually less than10 minutes).

NodeQuery

1 Registration address: https://nodequery.com/

Go to the NodeQuery official website to register an account.

2 Create a new server in the dashboard, fill in the host name, keep other settings as default and save.

3 Copy the generated command and paste it into Linux to complete the installation with one click.

After waiting for about 2-3 minutes, you can see intuitive data in NodeQuery dashboard. If the server fails or fails to connect, NodeQuery will send an email reminder to the administrator.

To remove agent from installed server: Run following command as root to remove the NodeQuery agent from the server you've just deleted. You can find this code once you try to delete the server from Edit option.

rm -R /etc/nodequery && (crontab -u nodequery -l | grep -v "/etc/nodequery/nq-agent.sh") | crontab -u nodequery - && userdel nodequery

Manually Install NodeInfo Page

NodeQuery provides API support, and NodeInfo (developed by the small z blog) uses the data provided by the NodeQuery API to provide simple server monitoring information, which can be easily placed on your own website for administrators or visitors to view.

Demo site: https://www.51sec.org/monitor , https://mynodequery.herokuapp.com/

Original Github address (Chinese version): https://github.com/helloxz/nodeinfo. It is Chinese version and I have forked it into my Github repository to modify it to English version, and add a Deploy to Heroku button to simplify deployment process.
Modified GitHub Address (English version): https://github.com/51sec/nodeinfo

1 Create a Read-Only API from NodeQuery Account Settings page

2 Modify and ListServers.phpfill in your own NodeQuery API.

3 Upload whole folder's files into remote php website
I created a new folder , monitor , which is hosting all files from NodeInfo.

Here is how the webpage looks like. It will be refreshed every 3 minutes. You can modify html file and php file to have your own customization. Very nice and useful tool to show your servers in the cloud.

Auto Install NodeInfo Using Heroku

1 Go to https://github.com/51sec/nodeinfo page

2 Click "Deploy to Heroku" button

3 Deploy APP

4 Visit APP URL

Go to your app settings, browse to Domains section to get app url.

Add Your Own Sub-Domain for Your Heroku App

Furthermore, you can add your own sub-domain into your Heroku project, as I did in the following screenshot:

Only thing you will need to do is to add a cname with the DNS target value into your domain management dashboard:

In this example, the new url for my Herokuapp is http://monitor.51sec.eu.org

Remove Nodequery Agent

Remove Agent

As soon as you delete a server from our interface, following command will be shown to remove the monitoring agent and any related data as well as user accounts from your system. Simply execute it as root on the server you don't want to monitor anymore.

rm -R /etc/nodequery && (crontab -u nodequery -l | grep -v "/etc/nodequery/nq-agent.sh") | crontab -u nodequery - && userdel nodequery

Verifying Removal

To verify that everything was removed successfully, simply check if the directory /etc/nodequery and its owner account nodequery do not exist on your system anymore. If you are using an older version of the monitoring script, you might have to remove the cron entry with the user root instead of removing the account nodequery.