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+Monitoring aprsc
+================
+
+It's a good practice to monitor the performance and utilisation of your
+server, and to generate alarms when it's not working as it should.
+
+aprsc comes with a munin plugin which makes it very easy to set up
+statistics graphs.
+
+Setting up the munin plugin
+------------------------------
+
+Install dependencies:
+
+    apt-get install libcache-cache-perl libjson-xs-perl
+
+
+Setting up nagios alarms
+---------------------------
+
+TODO: write