Monitoring your Rails production Application & Servers

Slides from my talk at the Chennai Ruby Meetup about the aspects of monitoring your Rails production application and the various tools and services available to get the job done.

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1. Steve Robinson (@stev4nity) Spritle Software Monitoring your Apps in Production
2. Isn't it enough to just deploy my apps to production?
5. Keeping an eye on your processes Make sure they are running Notify / do stuff when they act abnormally • God • Bluepill • Monit
7. Know when it breaks
8. Get notified when Exceptions occur Track them Get all the diagnostic info you need • Errbit • Airbrake • BugSnag • Rollbar Know when it breaks
9. Use logging wisely! Using lograge:
10. Make it concise / searchable Rotate regularly (logrotate) Aggregate somewhere Use logging wisely! • LogStash + ElasticSearch + Kibana • FluentD • PaperTrailApp
11. Rev it up without breaking
12. Rev it up without breaking
13. Rev it up without breaking
14. Rev it up without breaking Monitoring & Tracking Response times, Throughput, Slow Queries, etc Identify bottlenecks & help scale the app • Bullet, rack­mini­profiler • NewRelic • HoneyBadger
15. Keep the infrastructure calm Monitor CPU, Memory, Disk IO, Disk Usage, Load etc. Detect trends & prevent disasters Setup alerts & notifications • Nagios • Munin • ScoutApp • ServerDensity
16. Always Remember "If you can not measure it, you can not improve it." - Lord Kelvin Your sleep & health is more important than anything else DONT FORGET TO DO STRESS TESTS
17. • Process Monitoring: – God - http://godrb.com/ – Bluepill - https://github.com/bluepill-rb/bluepill – Monit - http://mmonit.com/monit/ • Exception Tracking – Airbrake - https://airbrake.io/ – Errbit - https://github.com/errbit/errbit – Rollbar – http://rollbar.com – BugSnag - http://bugsnag.com • Logging & Aggregation – Lograge - https://github.com/roidrage/lograge – LogStash - http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/logstash/ – PaperTrailApp - https://papertrailapp.com/ – Loggly - https://www.loggly.com/ – LogEntries - https://logentries.com/ • Performance Monitoring – NewRelic - http://newrelic.com/ – HoneyBadger - https://www.honeybadger.io/ – Bullet - https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet – Rack-mini-profiler - https://github.com/MiniProfiler/rack-mini-profiler • Systems Monitoring – Nagios - http://www.nagios.org/ – Munin - http://munin-monitoring.org/ – ScoutApp - https://scoutapp.com/ – ServerDensity - https://www.serverdensity.com/ Gems, Tools & Services worth having a look at :) Gems, Tools & Services worth having a look at :) Questions?