Sleep better by automating monitoring for your app

This talk will show strategies for monitoring your server and application. Get notified when your server or application encounters problems. Also, the talk will cover some ways to centralize, parse, and analyze your logs when your application is running in multiple servers.

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1. SLEEP BETTER BY
   AUTOMATING
   MONITORING FOR YOUR
   APP
   Juan Basso - @jrbasso
   System Architect - Zumba Fitness
   

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2. I AM NOT...
   Being paid by any company
   Associated of any company
   Getting any kind of benefit
   Professional Talker :D
   

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3. TYPES OF MONITORING
   Server Application (Your CakePHP App!)
   Client Side (JavaScript, Timing, Content, Privileges)
   System Monitoring (CPU, Memory, Network)
   Logs (What is Going On)
   Metrics (Listen to the Numbers)
   

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4. SERVER APPLICATION
   What is happening with your CakePHP app?
   Is your app running?
   Is your cron apps running as planned?
   Why are my requests slow in production?
   Works fine on my local!
   

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5. NEW RELIC
   Site:
   PHP Extension + SaaS
   Focused on the Application
   Good PHP Integration
   Show Slow Queries
   Show Slow Transactions
   Request Trace Detail
   CakePHP Friendly
   SLA Reports
   http://www.newrelic.com
   

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7. APPDYNAMICS
   Site:
   SaaS
   Focused on Network
   Show Slow Queries
   Show Slow Transactions
   Request Trace Detail
   NOT CakePHP Friendly
   http://www.appdynamics.com/
   

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9. ZEND SERVER
   Site:
   Web Server with Monitoring
   Store Full Request Detail
   Request Trace Detail
   All-in-one
   http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/
   

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11. APM
    Site:
    Extension, Free, Poor Documentation
    Hard to Install
    http://pecl.php.net/package/APM
    

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13. CLIENT SIDE
    Can the users hit my pages?
    How many users are using my site?
    What is the page load time? Is it usable?
    Is the user having issues with his browser?
    Some users complain about some page, but works on my local!
    

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14. NEW RELIC (CLIENT SIDE)
    Page Load Time
    Health Check
    Corelate User and Server Requests
    

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16. APPDYNAMICS (CLIENT SIDE)
    Page Load Time
    Health Check
    Corelate User and Server Requests
    JavaScript Errors
    

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18. QBAKA
    Site: https://qbaka.com
    SaaS
    Javascript Error Reporting
    Require Some JS on the Page
    

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20. REAL TIME VISITORS
    Google Analytics ( )
    Pingdom ( )
    Gauges ( )
    https://www.google.com/analytics
    https://www.pingdom.com
    http://get.gaug.es
    

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21. SYSTEM MONITORING
    My app is down! Why?!?! I didn't change the code!
    I can connect to the service, but why the app doesn't work?
    What part of the system is not working?
    Is my server over or under capacity?
    Do I need to scale up/down my servers? Should I? Can I?
    

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22. SCOUT
    Site:
    SaaS
    Lots of Charts
    Based on Plugins
    Ruby Friendly
    Alerts by E-mail, SMS, PagerDuty, Web Hooks
    https://scoutapp.com/
    

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24. SERVER DENSITY
    Site:
    SaaS
    Cloud, Server and Site Monitoring
    Responsive Interface
    Alerts by E-mail, SMS, Push Notifications, Web Hooks
    Can Re-Scale Instances (from docs)
    http://www.serverdensity.com/
    

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26. BOUNDARY
    Site:
    SaaS
    Linux Kernel Module
    Deep Network Monitoring
    Proactive Alerting (Cristal Ball)
    http://boundary.com/
    

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28. NAGIOS
    Site:
    The Classic! The Legend!
    You Have to Manage
    Tons of Checkers
    Hard To Setup
    Ugly Interface
    http://www.nagios.org
    

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30. LOGS
    What is wrong with my server?
    Is my code/server crashing?
    How to find an error in a pile of logs?
    

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31. LOGGLY
    Site:
    SaaS
    Combine All Logs
    Real-Time
    http://loggly.com/
    

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33. PAPERTRAIL
    Site:
    SaaS
    Combine All Logs
    Real-Time
    https://papertrailapp.com/
    

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35. SPLUNK / SPLUNKSTORM
    Site:
    Standalone and SaaS
    Combine All Logs
    Real-Time
    Create Filters and Analyzers
    http://splunkstorm.com/
    

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37. LOGSTASH + KIBANA 3
    Site: and
    You Have to Host It
    Very Easy to Customize (Custom Dashboards)
    Create Filters and Analyzers
    Logstash Can Be Distributed
    Free / Open Source
    http://logstash.net/ http://three.kibana.org/
    

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39. METRICS
    How is your audience? Increased a lot? Decreased a lot?
    How is your revenue?
    Can users from all locations access your site?
    Are you selling?
    Are you shipping user orders?
    

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40. LIBRATO
    Site:
    SaaS
    Generate Custom Graphs
    https://metrics.librato.com/
    

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42. STATSD + GRAPHITE
    Site:
    Open Source from Etsy (Node.js)
    Lightweight
    https://github.com/etsy/statsd/
    

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44. SOME METRICS TYPES
    Analyzing Logs Quantity
    Analyzing Access
    Analyzing User Region (country, state)
    Analyzing Languages
    Analyzing Network
    Analyzing RPM (Requests Per Minute)
    

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45. REVIEW - TYPES
    Server Application
    Client Side
    System Monitoring
    Logs
    Metrics
    

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46. QUESTIONS?
    

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47. THANKS
    

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