As well as New Relic, Scout, etc, you could use http://stillalive.com/ to 
test-drive your app's business-critical path :)

(disclaimer: I work for reInteractive)

On 16/08/2012, at 7:20 PM, Nahum Wild <[email protected]> wrote:

> Cool thanks.
> 
> in terms of monitoring I'd add scoutapp.com to your list.
> 
> --nahum
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Krasimir Angelov 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you have CI server already then adding deployment is usually just adding 
> one more step to your build command. Let's say you have Hudson already setup 
> and watching your development branch and your build command is like
> 
> bundle install && bundle exec rake db:migrate db:test:prepare spec cucumber
> 
>  and you wanna deploy your app to EY (what's the case for us) if tests pass, 
> then you just need to add that to build command:
> 
> bundle install && bundle exec rake db:migrate db:test:prepare spec cucumber 
> && ey deploy -e your_env_name_goes_here -m --branch development
> 
> "ey deploy" can be "cap deploy" or "git push heroku master" or whatever you 
> use for deployment. Of course you need to setup SSH keys and everything else 
> you may need.
> 
> I've tried this for staging environments only cause usually deployment to 
> production may require scheduling with other teams (marketing , support. etc) 
> but this depends on the app itself.
> 
> For monitoring we use New Relic, but I see people really love statsd for 
> custom metrics.
> 
> K.
> 
> 
> On Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:03:13 AM UTC+3, nahum wrote:
> I've listened to that podcast already, it's pretty interesting.
> 
> As we're building new apps we're requiring metrics just like we *cough* 
> require tests. Currently using Redis to track current state of the system 
> then using the below node lib to subscribe to keys and show live changes via 
> websockets.
> 
> https://github.com/terrcin/redis-key-pubsub
> 
> I've not yet looked into options for continuous deployment yet...
> 
> --nahum
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Malcolm Lockyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a little bit random, but the Ruby Rogues (the podcast) talked
> a little bit about this recently -
> Episode 062 RR Monitoring with Joseph Ruscio
> http://rubyrogues.com/062-rr-monitoring-with-joseph-ruscio/
> 
> Essentially they talk about having good metrics can be vital for going
> to a continuous deployment type setup. It's very helpful to have a
> graph you can watch after deploying and see: oh no, my errors per min
> is going up/response time is going down/whatever metric is important
> to your business is going down - I need to look into this.
> 
> Might be relevant and/or interesting.
> 
> 
> -Malcolm
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Nahum Wild <[email protected]> wrote:
> > anyone do this? recommend any tools for it? tips of what not to do?
> >
> > we've got some new small apps (moving to SOA) and would like to try this
> > out.
> >
> > cheers,
> > nahum
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