Here are mine ;-)
1. Look at the statistic usage. Not only the farm statistic usage, but
also the role statistic usage. Unfortunately the the page to the stats of a
role is not permalinkable ;-( This is a pain for me.
2. Don't forget that from time to time we need to deploy new version of
the application to our servers. Some changes can be done without stopping
the service (app role update), but some changes require to put a temporary
"down for maintenance" page. This could be done via nginx I think with a
simple scripting procedure from your part.
3. You were asking for some premium services people would be ready to
subscribe. Here is one. My instances are managed by Nagios. Nagios is great,
but it is a pain in the ass to manage instances with Nagios especially when
new instances are added automatically to the farm. You have a great email
notification service, but your monitoring solution only take the instance
into account, not the service and different parameters that interests me.
You know, I know that Rightscale uses syslog-ng. I would like to have a
monitoring service that is able to monitor
1. disk space
2. personnal processes (Jabber, SMS, Postfix, Mecached)
3. we need to be informed of what is going wrong on our servers,
before our users even notify us of the problem ;-)
4. Now I'm used to, but it was confusing to call the load balancing role
"www" at the beginning. Because "www" was associated with the web server for
me. This is not for me, but for the new users.
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Sebastian Stadil <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello everyone, I think we can all agree that Scalr could be made easier to
> use, so we're starting to work on an easier, more accessible UI design.
>
> - The Wizard guides you from start to finish for creating an
> application such as a website
> - Covers setting up initial DNS,
> - Setting up Resources/Farms, Instances, and Roles,
> - Setting up your Application, option to pull from repository,
> - Application versioning
> - The Top Menu lets you perform individual tasks, among which are
> - Maintenance of infrastructure, such as monitoring and taking
> action*
> - Maintenance of your applications, such as application versions,
> and the possibility off rollback to a previous state with whole farm
> snapshots
> - Adding Farms, Applications, Subdomains, Whole domains, Scripts**
>
> * What sort of actions do you usually take after looking at the monitoring
> page?
> ** What are the individual tasks that you use the most? Which ones aren't
> listed / would you like to have added?
>
> We'd like input from the community. Please respond with a task that you
> often perform, and a suggestion on how to streamline it.
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
>
> >
>
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