Moodle RAM

A screenshot of the Munin web app, with different graphs showing server performance.

5 free tools to monitor your Moodle server while load testing

Note: this post is aimed towards admins who run their Moodle installation on a Ubuntu Linux server. As usual, this is not meant to be a definitive list or how-to, but rather an introduction to what a Moodle administrator can do to ensure their installation is running smoothly. Monitoring tools The following tools are listed in increasing order of difficulty of use. I have used them all but I have found that unless I load test, the first 3 tools tend to be enough for me....

A vertical bar chart comparing the amount of RAM used by different Moodle activities.

Moodle performance testing: how much more horsepower do each new versions of Moodle require?

Each new version of Moodle allows teachers to create more engaging online courses, and do so more easily as Moodle becomes more user-friendly. It also puts extra strain on the server(s) it runs on. I have been asking myself for a while: “Just how much more horsepower do each new versions of Moodle require?” October being Oktobertest for me, I thought I’d investigate further and run some tests of my own....