Scout
With a one line install, Scout monitors your Rackspace Cloud servers using a flexible plugin-based system. From memory usage to Ruby on Rails to your own custom metrics, Scout puts your monitoring in one place.
Scout
Scout is server monitoring simplified–a simple install, point-and-click configuration, a flexible plugin-based system, and alerting.
Effortless Installation
Getting started with Scout takes just two commands. In most cases, it takes less than five minutes to log on to your server, install the Scout agent, and start seeing data in our web interface.
Don’t mess with scripts. Configure online
Choose what you want to monitor through our web interface. Your choices are automatically & securely retrieved by each one of your monitored servers.
With Scout, you’ll no longer need to keep monitoring scripts updated by hand on multiple servers. Scout keeps everything up-to-date for you.
Monitor anything.
Scout’s plugin system makes it endlessly flexible. From memory usage to MySQL to Disk I/O, you can tailor your monitoring needs with Scout. Our community is adding more plugins all of the time (and you can even create your own).
Optimized for the Cloud
Scout understands the cloud environment. Scout will seamlessly scale out its monitoring configuration in response to more cloud instances coming online. For example, if you add another web server instance to increase capacity, the new instance will automatically be detected and monitored by Scout.
All you need is a one-line cron job in your server image, and Scout will take care of the rest.
Ruby on Rails Monitoring
Track most popular actions and most requested actions. Get breakdowns of rendering time and database time on a per-action basis. Know your error code rates, HTTP request types, cache hit ratios, and more.
Rails analysis reports are generated through the excellent Request Log Analyzer.
Find bottlenecks
Graphs are the easiest way scan your data for the unexpected. Scout will graph your data at multiple resolutions, from the last few hours to the last year.
Compare whatever you need to, side-by-side, even if the vertical scales are different. With Scout you can determine relations among disparate metrics at a glance.
Alerts built for humans
Scout creates highly readable, human-friendly alerts that don’t require your system administrator’s technical translation abilities.
Scout’s power is in its flexibility to monitor any part of your application that requires it. We use it to manage 100s of Rails applications and can’t think of a better choice for our customers.
I’ve been using Scout to monitor the health of my servers for several months now. It’s alerts have already helped me take preventive action during a minor DoS. The Rails metrics have given me an in depth look at how well my application is performing over a long period of time and to find several simple optimizations.
I’m looking forward to writing some custom plugins and using Scout to start tracking my business metrics such as signup rates.
We use Scout at beatthegmat.com to monitor and optimize our PHP-based website. Scout’s flexibility has been great, and its MySQL monitoring plugin has been key in tuning our customized installation of phpBB. After working with the output from the MySQL plugin, I was able to speed up processing time by 3X for some of our most heavily hit pages. Just as importantly, Scout App is super easy to set up – you can get it set up in 5 minutes if you follow the easy instructions on their website.
I recommend Scout to anyone who needs to keep a close watch on their server health.
December 1, 2009 at 11:34 am
We use Scout at beatthegmat.com to monitor and optimize our PHP-based website. Scout’s flexibility has been great, and its MySQL monitoring plugin has been key in tuning our customized installation of phpBB. After working with the output from the MySQL plugin, I was able to speed up processing time by 3X for some of our most heavily hit pages. Just as importantly, Scout App is super easy to set up – you can get it set up in 5 minutes if you follow the easy instructions on their website.
I recommend Scout to anyone who needs to keep a close watch on their server health.