On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Kevin Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 1. Auto refresh data on logs > 2. I like the look of your scalr.net main page... maybe use that for > the look and feel of the scalr site > 3. Create dashboard for home page by default. It should have widgets > with: > 1. uptime/status on each farm/application > 2. general usage information stuff like: > https://scalr.net/farm_usage_stats.php > 4. Optionally allow us to set main page after login to goto any of > the pages > 5. For new users give them more instruction on setting up a farm > 6. Wizard for setting up DNS early on. The DNS was essential for us, > some recommendations would be helpful. > 1. Setting up secondary DNS > 2. Using a dot info domain with scalr and then using cnames to it on > our primaries.... much eisier to manage. > 7. more to come.... > > Much more robust monitoring: - on call rotation - roles/groups to alert specific roles based on specific events rather than specific email addresses - SMS alerts... we set this up with a third part gateway for cheap, be happy to give details on this - Alerts on failed http requests, that work the same way the e-load balancer does. Scalr on anything: - it would be great to switch the way scaling works a bit. I really like the voting system that rightscale has. Basically any event can vote to have a server scale, if there are enough votes, based on configurable threshold, servers scale - be able to write custom scripts that can submit votes on anything. - if not the main thing we are hoping for is to be able to scale based on the "http response time" of a service. > > 1. > > > > > 2009/8/21 Frédéric Sidler <[email protected]> > > 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scalr-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
