# Jimbo - Monitor your server with Jabber

DevFeed: [Jimbo - Monitor your server with Jabber](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/jimbo-monitor-your-server-with-jabber-35424.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://darkcoding.net/software/jimbo/>)

Author: Graham King

Published: 2007-02-15T23:11:37Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Graham King](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/graham-king.md>)

Topics: [XMPP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/xmpp.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [monitor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitor.md>), [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>), [Messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/messaging.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ietf.md>)

Tags: [ietf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ietf.md>), [messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/messaging.md>), [monitor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitor.md>), [protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/protocol.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [small](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/small.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [speech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/speech.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial presents Jabber/XMPP as a lightweight way to monitor whether personal web applications and servers are available. It introduces XMPP, explains basic Jabber terminology such as hosts, JIDs, and resources, and begins showing how to build a simple monitor in Python.

## Source excerpt

A friend for your server: Jabber, the ultimate office wingman.