Oh Dear Health Check Plugin for Shopware & TYPO3
Ensuring a website's health and performance is essential, especially for enterprise-level systems like TYPO3 and Shopware.
In a dynamic digital environment, maintaining the health and performance of your website is critical. Monitoring system resources, error logs, and database size becomes even more important when running a robust content management system (CMS) like TYPO3 or trendsetting ecommerce platform like Shopware.
To address this, we developed a seamless integration between TYPO3 CMS, Shopware and Oh Dear, a monitoring service known for its reliability and comprehensive health checks. Our TYPO3 Oh Dear Health Check Extension and Shopware Oh Dear Health Check Extension offers TYPO3 and Shopware users a direct way to monitor and ensure the continued stability of their websites.
TYPO3 and Shopware are powerful, enterprise-level systems, that powers many high-traffic websites. While TYPO3 and Shopware offer inbuilt tools to manage content and structure, real-time monitoring of the site’s health and system performance often requires external tools. Website administrators needed a way to:
- Monitor essential metrics like disk space, error logs, and database size.
- Receive alerts and notifications for critical issues before they escalate into larger problems.
- Customize monitoring options based on their unique server and website configurations.
Manually monitoring these aspects or relying on fragmented solutions could lead to missed alerts and performance bottlenecks. A single solution was needed to centralize and automate these checks within TYPO3 and Shopware.
TYPO3 & Shopware Oh Dear Health Check Extension
Our team addressed these challenges by developing the TYPO3 & Shopware Oh Dear Health Check Extensions, a plugin that integrates directly with TYPO3, Shopware and Oh Dear monitoring services. The extension allows administrators to easily track website health metrics without leaving their administration environment.
- Disk Space Monitoring: Keep track of your server’s disk usage to avoid overloading or running out of space.
- Error Log Management: Automatically check the size of PHP and TYPO3 error logs to identify issues early.
- Database Size Tracking: Continuously monitor the size of the MySQL database, ensuring optimal performance.
- Forgotten Files Scan: Scans your server for old or unused files that can clutter the system and reduce efficiency.
- Version Check: Ensures that your CMS or ecommerce system is always up to date with the latest stable version.
- Customizable: The extension’s flexible architecture allows for customization, from configuring alert thresholds to creating new health checks tailored to specific needs.
Widget Integration
For convenience, the extension also comes with a dashboard widget that offers at-a-glance visibility into the system’s health. It fetches and displays real-time information from Oh Dear’s API, letting users monitor both basic and custom health checks directly from TYPO3’s and Shopware's backend dashboard.
Since launching the extension, numerous TYPO3- and Shopware-powered websites have benefited from its automated checks and alerts.
One of our clients, managing a high-traffic e-commerce site, was able to resolve critical disk space and error log issues promptly, reducing downtime and improving overall site performance. This proactive approach helped them prevent a potential server crash during peak traffic periods, ensuring uninterrupted service and protecting their revenue stream.
An organization using TYPO3 for their public portal needed a tailored monitoring solution due to their unique infrastructure. After integrating the TYPO3 Oh Dear Health Check Extension, they leveraged the customization features to create custom health checks for monitoring API response times and internal server processes specific to their environment. By extending the plugin with custom checks, they gained deep insights into system performance that weren't available through standard monitoring tools.
The TYPO3 & Shopware Oh Dear Health Check Extensions have become an indispensable tool for TYPO3 and Shopware administrators seeking a unified, reliable way to monitor and maintain their websites’ health. It not only prevents issues before they escalate but also saves valuable time through automation, allowing admins to focus on growing their website and business rather than troubleshooting performance problems.
If you're running a TYPO3 website or Shopware eshop and want to ensure its health, the Oh Dear Health Check Extension is the solution you’ve been looking for.