One of the complaints I have heard from people using other anti-spam services is that they never know if/when the service is having problems.
One of the things that I am interested in is performance statistics so that I can monitor the way the servers are performing and catch and problems that might be happening. I need to have access to this information while I am at home and more importantly while I am away from home.
Both of these problems are solved with my latest feature, a telnet based stats page. The format of the page is based off of the UNIX command vmstats. It has several columns of information that are constantly scrolling with updates.
If you want to see what it looks like you can drop to a command prompt and type ”’telnet stats.spamfreeemail.net”’.
From there you will see the same stats that I look at to see how the system is performing.
There are 6 major columns with minor columns for details, they are:
* Message Count for the past 24 hours
** G = Good
** B = Bad
** N = Neutral
** v = Virus
* Current Cache
** Profile Cache
** Mail Cache
* Active Processes or mail currently being profiled
* SMTPC Retries or the number of message in the SMTP Client retry queue
* Average processing time
** Last Message
** Day = Average for the last 24 hours
** Week = Average for the past 7 days
* Node count or total number of nodes in the cluster
These are current real-time stats, possibly delay no more then 5 seconds, but updated closer to 1 per second.
If this is ever down it simply means I am doing some maintenance, as this is integrated as part of the system as a whole now 