If possible adapt the based on customer timezone. I'm in Switzerland  
and the logs and monitoring infos are delayed.

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Le 22 août 2009 à 06:37, Marten Nelson <[email protected]> a  
écrit :

> I agree with previous posters wish-lists. Here are couple of more  
> suggestions:
>
> - For terminate or delete actions of a farm (or any other object for  
> that matter), clearly state the name of the farm on the confirmation  
> page
> - display farm name on load stats page
> - display time data was collected on load stats page
>
> M
>
> On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Sebastian Stadil wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the feedback, looking forward to hear from the  
>> others.  :-)
>>
>> A Getting Started guide is now available here: 
>> http://wiki.scalr.net/Getting_Started 
>>  ; feel free to contribute, edit, and improve.
>>
>> The Scalr.net script interface saves you time by avoiding the need  
>> to synchronize.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM, rhythmandcode <[email protected] 
>> > wrote:
>>
>> 1.  For load statistics it would be nice to be able to see stats for
>> each individual instance as well as aggregated.  Say you notice that
>> your app Role is seeing high CPU activity, if you have 5 app servers,
>> you potentially need to log onto all 5 and run top to discover that
>> some process got stuck in an infinite loop on one instance.  (Yeah,
>> silly and contrived example, but you get the idea.)
>>
>> 2.  Better "getting started" documentation.  I think that in general
>> Scalr is pretty easy to use, once you understand the concepts that  
>> are
>> at it's core.  For instance some docs that clearly explain the full
>> life-cycle of a Scalr instance, along with all of the events/ 
>> callbacks
>> that get executed, and how to hook your own processes/scripts into  
>> the
>> ecosystem.  There's a lot of "magic" built into Scalr, and that can  
>> be
>> intimidating if you don't understand exactly what's going on under  
>> the
>> hood and you need to tweak it a little bit.  Just some pointers to  
>> and
>> explanation of the "magic" would do wonders.
>>
>> Along these lines, maybe someone can tell me.  What exactly are the
>> differences and pros/cons between placing a script in the Scalr.net
>> interface and setting it to execute on a Role VS. customizing the AMI
>> for the role and placing scripts in the SNMP traps area?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
>> On Aug 21, 11:51 am, Kevin Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 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
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
> >

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