Dear CouchDB Community, I’m happy to announce Opservatory https://opservatory.app, my company Neighbourhoodie’s latest product for monitoring your CouchDB instances.
Opservatory knows CouchDB better than any single human could. We’ve put our combined multi-decade experience with supporting CouchDB installations of all shapes into one tool that makes sure you are not running into any trouble, ever. It continuously monitors your CouchDB installations and runs a number of checks to ensure your CouchDBs are running correctly, fast and securely. It also checks for conditions and configurations that have the potential to cause production issues in the future. It compares metrics against settings to make real-time recommendations for improving your CouchDB instance or cluster. It evaluates configuration, metrics, and database information to ensure smooth operation. It even evaluates your JavaScript code in design documents for common mistakes and performance pitfalls. Here are just a few examples of the checks that Opservatory runs periodically: - If you are just starting out with CouchDB, Opservatory checks if you’ve got any quirks in your setup and configuration and gives you recommendations for well-established best practices for running CouchDB correctly, fast and securely. - If your production cluster ran into trouble and you don’t know where to start looking for things to fix, Opservatory will give you the top list of issues that you can resolve to make your problem(s) go away. - If your intern uploaded a design doc with an inefficient map function (again), Opservatory will let you know, but it also catches more common patterns used by seasoned CouchDB developers that can be improved. - If you create a new database and forget to set the correct _security object, Opservatory will warn you about publicly accessible data that you might want to make private as soon as you get the notification. Opservatory has over 80 checks that cover the five main areas of every CouchDB installation: setup, configuration, metrics, databases and queries/design docs. We have at least as many more in the backlog, and we are constantly adding more as we find more issues during our professional support service work. You can configure Opservatory to receive alerts via email or Slack, and it covers all CouchDB versions: 1.x, 2.x and 3.x. It even works with Cloudant! And while we are very happy with where we are already, we have big plans to make maintaining CouchDB in production even easier with features round capacity planning and seamless growth as well as helping to automate common maintenance tasks safely. If you have any questions, I’m happy to answer off-list. If you think this is interesting, we welcome you to sign up for a free trial at https://opservatory.app. Best Jan — Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/ 24/7 Observation for your CouchDB Instances: https://opservatory.app
