New Relic offers (very) basic hosted server monitoring for free. http://newrelic.com/server-monitoring
It also has some nice plugins for Postgres, Apache, etc monitoring. If you have a small app that depends on other services being operational, a ping app (https://github.com/jondot/rack-ping) in your router can serve as a canary in the coal mine to let you know that something is wrong. # routes.rb MyApp::Application.routes.draw do # Heartbeat URL which is checked by Pingdom, etc ping_app = Rack::Ping.new(nil) do |ping| ping.version KC.revision # Make sure that elastic search is up ping.check_url "http://localhost:9200"; ping.ok_regex /"ok" : true/ end mount ping_app => ‘/ping-elasticsearch' # ... end - john On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Kevin Ball <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James, > > Not a requirement, I'm evaluating hosted systems as well... but I'm > looking for more fine-grained monitoring than e.g. pingdom. Thanks! > > -Kevin > > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:28 AM, James Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Kevin, >> >> For "internal", is it a requirement that it's self-hosted? >> >> James >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Kevin Ball <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi SDRuby, >>> >>> I'm investigating alternatives to Nagios for internal monitoring and >>> alerts, and was wondering what all of you experts out there have found most >>> effective and easy to manage. >>> >>> One alternative I'm looking at is Sensu (http://sensuapp.org/); >>> Anyone with experience there that can comment on stability, ease of use, or >>> anything else of import? >>> >>> Any other suggestions, and their benefits/drawbacks? Thanks much! >>> >>> -Kevin >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> SD Ruby mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "SD Ruby" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> SD Ruby mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "SD Ruby" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
