CloudLinux Manager

Activation
Website Monitoring tool
PHP Slow Site analyzer
X-Ray
AccelerateWP
PHP Selector

CloudLinux Manager is a plugin for most popular control panels including cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin and ISPmanager (InterWorx coming soon). It allows you to control and monitor all CloudLinux OS Solo features.

CloudLinux Manager (previously LVE Manager) is accessible via the Server Configuration tab:

Warning

LVE Manager is renamed to CloudLinux Manager since cPanel v 96.0.9

Website Monitoring provides access to Website Monitoring and PHP Slow Site Analyzer.
X-Ray tab - provides access to X-Ray;

Activation

To start using CloudLinux Manager, it must be activated with your CloudLinux OS Solo activation key.

In order to activate CloudLinux Manager features, follow the next steps:

Enter your CLN activation key if you already have it

If you have IP-based license, please leave the Enter Activation Key field empty and just click Activate.

You can read more about CloudLinux OS Solo and how to get the license here
Sign up and get 30-days trial license

Fill out the next form

CloudLinux Manager will be activated automatically after submitting the form.

Note
After submitting the registration form you will get a trial license valid for next 24 hours. To prolong license for 30 days, please follow the activation instructions sent to email specified during the registration.

Website Monitoring tool

Website Monitoring tool (WMT) is a tool that collects the statistics of the domains' availability and responsiveness, as well as errors that occur when accessing these domains. An admin can get email reports with the statistics. The Website Monitoring tool uses the simple curl request like curl http://domain.com to get domains’ statistics.

You can configure the Website Monitoring tool and the Slow Site analyzer and view the daily reports in the CloudLinux Manager -> Website monitoring tab.

There are Main, PHP Site analyzer, and Settings subtabs here.

Warning

For now, there is no any possibility to remove the alt-php-ssa and cl-web-monitoring-tool packages so that the Website monitoring tab will be removed. You can turn off the Website monitoring, PHP Sites Analyzer in the Settings tabs, so sites statistics will stop collecting and there will be no additional load on the server.

Main

This subtab views the latest report (for the last 24 hours) of the Website monitoring tool.

Report is regenerated each time the page is loaded, so all changes in configuration (the Settings tab) or in the list of domains will be applied immediately.

Total number of requests - requests that were sent to all domains, existing on the servers
Successful requests - the number of requests for all domains with
Requests with errors - the number of requests for all domains which status code is not 200
Not started requests due to short check interval - this metric is used to adjust configuration. If it is not equal 0, an admin should increase the value of Requests sending interval, because the tool does not fit into this interval to send requests to all domains.
Slowest websites in 24h and Websites with most errors in 24h - in these sections you can find the number of domains that was exposed here.

WMT Settings

To enable or disable Website Monitoring, use the following slider.

Email to send report - all email notifications will be sent to this email address

Warning

If email is not specified, all notifications will be sent to control panel administrator's email.

Check every X minutes - this is a period in minutes between requests to the same domain.
Time allowed for response - if there is no answer from the website for this period of time, the Website Monitoring tool will regard this behaviour as the HTTP 408 error.
Enable summary notifications - turn on/off summary daily email report notifications
Enable alert notifications - turn on/off immediate alert email notifications
Domains and URLs Ignore List - domains and URLs that will not be requested and displayed in reports; supported formats: example.com, http://example.com

WMT CLI

The wmt-api-solo utility allows managing Website Monitoring tool via CLI.

Usage

# /usr/share/web-monitoring-tool/wmtbin/wmt-api-solo [command] [--optional arguments]

Optional arguments:


`-h`, `--help`	show help message and exit

Commands:


`config-change`	set the WMT configuration using the JSON string that follows the command
`config-get`	get the WMT configuration as JSON
`report-get`	generate a report for last 24 hours
`send-clickhouse`	send the summary report to the ClickHouse
`start`	start the WMT system
`status`	check the status of the WMT system
`stop`	stop the WMT system

Example of the /usr/share/web-monitoring-tool/wmtbin/wmt-api-solo command usage:

# /usr/share/web-monitoring-tool/wmtbin/wmt-api-solo --config-change "{\"ping_timeout\":10,\"ping_interval\":5,\"report_email\":\"user@example.com\"}"

This way you can set all or only certain parameters.

WMT email notifications

There are two types of emails sent by the Web Monitoring tool: daily email report and alert.

Daily email report

The summary report with all data for the previous day. It is created and sent every day at midnight.

Example of the Web Monitoring tools daily report.

Alert

Domains that are responding with non-200 status code will be re-requested in 5 minutes or in the ping_interval setting (in case it is less than 5 minutes).

If domains are still responding with non-200 status code - Web Monitoring tool will inform about such domains with immediate alert email.

Example of the Web monitoring tools immediate alert.

Note

The next alert with domains will not be sent in less than 6 hours. Also, if the alerted domain is still responding with non-200 status code even after 6 hours - it will not be re-alerted until it responds with 200 status code at least once and becomes unavailable again.

PHP Slow Site analyzer

PHP Slow Site analyzer (SSA) is a tool that generates daily reports for the server administrator with information about the top N slow PHP-based URLs for all domains. The Slow Site analyzer tracks all PHP-based requests and selects slow ones by specific rules.

This is an example of a report from the Slow Site analyzer. The report shows the number of slow requests per domain and its URLs and the average duration of each slow URL.

SSA settings

To enable or disable the Slow Site analyzer, use the following slider:

The following settings can be changed through the UI:

Enable summary notifications - turn on/off summary daily email report notifications;
Top slow URLs - this number (N) will be used to select the top N URLs for each domain, marked as slow;
Slow request duration - the duration of a request in seconds. If the request duration was less than specified in this setting then this request will not be marked as slow;
Domains and URLs Ignore List - domains and URLs that will not be displayed in reports.

SSA CLI

The cloudlinux-ssa-manager utility allows to manage Slow Site analyzer via CLI.

Usage

# /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-ssa-manager [command] [--optional arguments]

Optional arguments:


`-h`, `--help`	show help message and exit

Commands:


`set-config`	set the SSA configuration
`get-config`	get the SSA configuration
`get-ssa-status`	get a current status of SSA
`enable-ssa`	enable SSA
`disable-ssa`	disable SSA
`get-report`	get the latest report

You can use the -h, --help option with commands to get a full list of available optional arguments for each command.

Example of the /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-ssa-manager get-report | json_reformat command output:

# /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-ssa-manager get-report | json_reformat
{
    "result": "success",
    "date": "18.05.2021",
    "domains": [
        {
            "name": "user1.com",
            "slow_urls": 2,
            "slow_reqs": 23,
            "total_reqs": 24,
            "urls": [
                {
                    "name": "http://user1.com/",
                    "reqs_num": 13,
                    "average_duration": 3004509
                },
                {
                    "name": "http://user1.com/info.php",
                    "reqs_num": 10,
                    "average_duration": 3641018
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "user2.com",
            "slow_urls": 1,
            "slow_reqs": 12,
            "total_reqs": 12,
            "urls": [
                {
                    "name": "http://user2.com/",
                    "reqs_num": 12,
                    "average_duration": 3010571
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Example of the /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-ssa-manager set-config --requests-duration 2.5 command output:

# /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-ssa-manager set-config --requests-duration 2.5
{"result": "success"}

SSA email notifications

SSA sends email reports daily if the "Enable summary notifications" setting is turned on.

Example of the PHP Slow Site analyzer report:

X-Ray

Description

X-Ray is a tool developed for website performance monitoring and performance issues detection.

X-Ray can gather and visualize information about top N slowest system functions, external requests, software modules and database queries of the website.

How to manage X-Ray

X-Ray provides two options for monitoring domain requests speed: Tracing task and Continuous task.

Tracing task is a task created manually for a specific URL to collect server requests. The task will end either after a specified number of requests to the URL or after a specified time (maximum after two days). It is not possible here to automatically email a report but it is possible to export the report in PDF and send to a user.
Continuous task is a task that initiates a daily hourly tracing requests for a specified domain and email a monitoring report. Continuous task can't stop automatically, you need to stop it manually.

In fact, continuous task allows to automatically create a tracing task for each new day, with the ability to get a report for the past day.

Tracing tasks tab

The Tracing tasks tab contains a list of all tracing tasks created both manually and automatically via continuous tasks.

The Created column shows how a task was created – automatically (by continuous task) or manually.

Continuous tracing tab

The Continuous tracing tab contains a list of continuous tasks for which tracing tasks will be created automatically for a new day for a specific domain.

Managing tracing task

Creating a new tracing task

Go to the X-Ray tab
Click the Start tracing button to create a new task
In the opened popup specify a website URL to trace
Click the Run button
Tracing will run in the default mode. In the default mode X-Ray traces the first 20 requests for a specified URL

URL should be a valid URL of the domain which exists on the current hosting server. The URL field supports wildcard matching. To learn more about wildcard matching, click How to use special characters.
Advanced settings allow you to set an IP address and tracing options: by time or by number of queries.

Advanced settings

Client’s IP: it is an IPv4 address of a machine to trace. For example, if you have a production website that processes requests from different IP addresses and you do not want to add these requests to the tracing task. So, you can set a specific IP address and X-Ray will analyze requests only from this specific IP address. Record for
Time period: how much time X-Ray collect the requests (2 days max)
Requests: the amount of requests that X-Ray will collect

After creating, the task appears in the list of tracing tasks.

Viewing tracing tasks list

Tasks created Manually are simply tracing tasks.

Tracing status

A tracing task can have the following statuses:

Running – tracing is in progress
Stopped – tracing was stopped by administrator
On hold – the same URL already exists in the lists. Task processing will not start automatically. Administrator should start it manually.
Completed – period of time is finished or number of requests is reached.

Collected requests for tracing task

Warning!

Collected requests are available in the UI for two weeks.

Click to open a list of collected requests.

Tracing tasks

The slowest request is highlighted.

Total displays how many requests were collected according to tasks requirements.
Pending displays how many of collected requests are not visible in the table yet.
Slow displays the number of requests lasting more than one second.

There are filters for the request types and the indicator of a filter used now.

If slow requests were not detected during the tracing task, the following is displayed. Here, you can also view all requests.

X-Ray collects the following data for each request:

Top issues – the slowest items of a request
Software modules/plugins by execution time (only for WordPress plugins)
Database queries by execution time
External requests by execution time
Other system functions by execution time

Software modules/plugins

The Software modules/plugins section displays the following data:

Software type – a type a module/plugin. For now, X-Ray can analyze only WordPress software
Software module – a name of the WordPress plugin
Duration – plugin execution time
Duration (%) – plugin execution time as a percentage of the total duration of the request

Database queries

The Database queries section displays the following data:

Query – the executed SQL-query
File – the file and the line of the executed query and backtrace
Software module – a WordPress plugin name from which the request was completed. If the request does not belong to any of the WordPress plugin, the name of the function that executed the given request is displayed
Calls – the number of identical SQL queries
Duration – execution time as a percentage of the total duration of a request and the function processing time (in brackets)

External requests

The External requests section displays the following data:

URL – the URL of the executed request
File – the file and the line of the executed request and backtrace
Duration – execution time as a percentage of the total duration of a request and the function processing time (in brackets)

System functions

The System functions section displays the following data:

Function – the executed function
File – the file and the line of the executed request
Duration – execution time as a percentage of the total duration of a request and the function processing time (in brackets)

Stopping tracing task

Click to stop the tracing task.

The tracing task status will be changed to Stopped. Data will not be collected anymore but you can see already collected information or continue tracing later by clicking .

Deleting tracing task

Click to delete the tracing task.

Warning!

When you have deleted a tracing task, all collected data will be unavailable.

Managing continuous tasks

Creating a new continuous task

Click the Create continuous tracing button

Specify URL in the Domain field and email in the Email for reports field and click the Create button.

You can see a new task in the Continuous tracing tab in the X-Ray UI.

If you stop a continuous tracing task, a new task for the next 24 hours will not be created. The task for the current day will be finished at midnight and the report will be emailed.
If you delete a continuous tracing task, the task for the current day will be finished at midnight and the report will be emailed.

Viewing continuous tasks list

You can find a list of continuous tracing tasks in the Continuous tracing tab.

You can find automatically created tasks in the Tracing tasks tab marked as Automatically in the Created column.

The statuses for automatically created tasks are the same as for tracing task.

To view detailed info about an automatically created task, click . You will get requests grouped by hour.

Click to a group to open a list of the requests.

The following data is collected for each request:

Software modules/plugins by execution time (only for WordPress plugins)
Database queries by execution time
External requests by execution time
Other system functions by execution time

Stopping automatic tracing task

Stopping automatic tracing task (a part of continuous tracing task) affects only the automatic tracing task for the current day. A new task for the next day will be created at the end of the day.

To stop the continuous tracing task completely, see Creating a new continuous task, paragraph 4.

Deleting automatic tracing task

Deleting automatic tracing task (a part of continuous tracing task) affects only the automatic tracing task for the current day. A new task for the next day will be created at the end of the day.

To delete the continuous tracing task completely, see Creating a new continuous task, paragraph 5.

Continuous task daily report

Users get daily reports on their emails. An example of a report is shown below:
Click the link in the email to show the detailed report:
You can view requests grouped by hour:
You can also view the detailed information about request:

X-Ray Autotracing

X-Ray Autotracing automatically creates tracing tasks for slow URLs that were found during a day by the PHP Slow Site Analyzer (SSA).

Warning

To use X-Ray Autotracing, update your alt-php-ssa and alt-php-xray packages to versions alt-php-ssa-0.2-1 and alt-php-xray-0.4-1 or higher by running the following command:

# yum update alt-php-ssa alt-php-xray --enablerepo=cloudlinux-updates-testing

How to enable X-Ray Autotracing

To enable X-Ray Autotracing, run the following commands via SSH:

# /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-ssa-manager enable-ssa
# /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-xray-autotracing enable --all

Check CLI documentation for a description of the /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-xray-autotracing CLI utility.

Requirements

CloudLinux OS Shared Pro or CloudLinux OS Solo
alt-php-ssa > 0.2-1 version
alt-php-xray > 0.4-1 version
Enabled PHP SSA on the server

Autotracing Interface

A new tab for Autotracing tasks was added to the X-Ray UI:

Autotracing FAQ

Q: Why are the slow URLs in the Slow Site Analyzer report different from those on which the autotracing tasks were created?

A: Because the autotracing decision module uses rules and thresholds different from Slow Site Analyzer, which are configured by the CloudLinux team.

Q: How often autotracing tasks will be generated?

A: Once a day at the same time as a Slow Site Analyzer report.

X-Ray Autotracing CLI

The cloudlinux-xray-autotracing utility allows to manage the X-Ray Autotracing via CLI.

Usage

# /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-xray-autotracing [command] [--optional arguments]

Commands:


`enable`	Enable X-Ray Autotracing
`disable`	Disable X-Ray Autotracing
`status`	Get current status of the X-Ray Autotracing

Optional arguments:


`-h`, `--help`	Show help message and exit
`--all`	Enable or disable for all users
`{username}`	Enable/disable the specified user
`--list-disabled`	Show list of disabled users

You can use the -h, --help option with commands to get a full list of available optional arguments for each command.

Example usage:

Disable user1:

# /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-xray-autotracing disable user1
{"result": "success"}

Show list of disabled users:

# /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-xray-autotracing status --list-disabled
{"result": "success", "disabled_users": ["user1"]}

Enable all:

# /usr/sbin/cloudlinux-xray-autotracing enable --all
{"result": "success"}

X-Ray Smart Advice

Smart advice is a new feature of X-Ray that is designed to find and propose solutions to fix performance issues and speed up the performance of a sites.

Note

Smart Advice will work only for CloudLinux OS Solo servers with cPanel or Plesk Control Panel for now.

At the moment, Smart Advice is focused only on WordPress sites.

Warning

To use X-Ray Smart Advice, update your alt-php-ssa and alt-php-xray packages to versions alt-php-ssa-0.2-3 and alt-php-xray-0.5-1 or higher by running the following command:

# yum update alt-php-ssa alt-php-xray lve-utils lvemanager --enablerepo=cloudlinux-updates-testing

Requirements

CloudLinux OS Shared Pro or CloudLinux OS Solo
alt-php-xray > 0.5-1 version
lve-utils > 6.3.2-1 version
lvemanager > 7.6.1-1 version
cloudlinux-site-optimization-module > 0.1-1 version

We Recommend:

Enable X-Ray Autotracing on the server
Use alt-php-ssa > 0.2-3 version

How X-Ray Smart Advice works

The main process of looking for advice is X-Ray tracing tasks. The best way for doing this is to enable X-Ray Autotracing. This will allow you to most effectively find Smart Advice for sites that have performance issues without your manual participation. You can find information on how to enable X-Ray Autotracing here. On the other hand, you can create tracing tasks manually or use continuous X-Ray but we suggest you use X-Ray Autotracing for this purpose.

Note

Advice will not be generated by old tracing tasks.

While the tracing task is running, X-Ray will look for places where advice can be applied. New advice will be displayed on the Smart Advice tab.

Smart Advice FAQ

Q: Why I can't see new advice on the Smart Advice tab?

A: For the generating of advice, it is necessary to run X-Ray tracing tasks, the best way to do it without manual interaction is to use X-Ray Autoracing. You can find more information on how to enable X-Ray Autotracing here.

Useful Smart Advice CLI commands

Warning!

This is an experimental feature. The backwards compatibility is not guaranteed.

To obtain the full list of advice generated for your server use the following CLI command:

cl-smart-advice list

For each advice in the list the CLI command returns the following information:

metadata, which includes information about username, domain and website for which the advice is issued
advice information:
- its identifier id
- its type
- its status -- review or applied
- if advice is Premium is_premium
- other internal informational fields

The example output is given below:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "created_at": "2023-04-11T07:33:48.191870+00:00",
      "updated_at": "2023-04-11T07:33:48.191870+00:00",
      "metadata": {
        "username": "user16",
        "domain": "user16.com",
        "website": "/wordpress"
      },
      "advice": {
        "id": 23484,
        "type": "OBJECT_CACHE",
        "status": "review",
        "description": "Turn on Object Caching",
        "is_premium": true,
        "module_name": "object_cache",
        "subscription": {
          "status": "no",
          "upgrade_url": null
        },
        "total_stages": 0,
        "completed_stages": 0,
        "detailed_description": "To improve site performance, enable the Object Caching We recommend applying the advice if you see it frequen
tly for the most valuable URLs of your site."
      }
    },
    {
      "created_at": "2023-04-11T07:33:48.297784+00:00",
      "updated_at": "2023-04-11T08:51:42.362117+00:00",
      "metadata": {
        "username": "user16",
        "domain": "user16.com",
        "website": "/wordpress"
      },
      "advice": {
        "id": 23485,
        "type": "SITE_OPTIMIZATION",
        "status": "applied",
        "description": "Turn on AccelerateWP feature",
        "is_premium": false,
        "module_name": "accelerate_wp",
        "total_stages": 0,
        "completed_stages": 0,
        "detailed_description": "To improve site performance, enable the AccelerateWP optimization feature. We recommend applying the advice if you see it frequently for the most valuable URLs of your site."
      }
    }
  ],
  "result": "success",
  "timestamp": 1681203110
}

End-user X-Ray plugin

Please refer to the CloudLinux OS Solo user documentation.

X-Ray client

X-Ray client is a PHP extension named xray.so. It analyzes the processing time of the entire request and its parts and then sends the data to the X-Ray agent.

List of supported PHP versions

The list of currently supported PHP versions:


ALT PHP:	EA PHP:	Plesk PHP	DirectAdmin PHP	Other panels PHP
alt-php54 alt-php55 alt-php56 alt-php70 alt-php71 alt-php72 alt-php73 alt-php74	ea-php54 ea-php55 ea-php56 ea-php70 ea-php71 ea-php72 ea-php73 ea-php74	php54 php55 php56 php70 php71 php72 php73 php74	php54 php55 php56 php70 php71 php72 php73 php74	54 55 56 70 71 72 73 74

Functions that X-Ray client can hook

Database queries

Functions from the MySQL extension:
- mysql_query
- mysql_db_query
- mysql_unbuffered_query
Functions from the MySQLi extension:
- mysqli_query
- mysqli::query
- mysqli_multi_query
- mysqli::multi_query
- mysqli_real_query
- mysqli::real_query
Functions from the PDO extension:
- PDO::exec
- PDO::query
- PDOStatement::execute

External requests

Function curl_exec

System PHP functions

It may be any PHP system function which can be related to a PHP engine or other PHP extension, for example fopen() or json_encode(). A list of these functions can be found here.