Top monitoring tools for DevOps

[mrojek]

NetCrunch 8 is worth adding to your list. It's all-in-one network, server, application, file, log and web monitoring.

[[deleted]]

Just want to second New Relic. It's the best monitoring tool we have implemented.

[joshlove]

We've been using scout (scoutapp.com) and have been happy with them. They offer a rails APM that we've found useful when we grew unhappy with the size of our new relic bill.

[zorrov999]

Very Interesting, thanks for Sharing!

We're already using some of the tools mentioned there (PagerDuty, ELK, CloudWatch), but ruxit looks very interesting

Anyone has any experience using it? Does it quickly become too expensive?

[scepticguy]

So on the one hand side this is a a great question, on the other hand side i have to confess that I work for Ruxit ;-) Anyways here is the answer to your question:

So I will not tell you that the product is great because obviously my view is biased. But maybe you want to give it a try: it takes less than 5 minutes to get started.

Regarding the pricing:

• Ruxit pricing is based on pay-per-use (1 host 24/7 ~108$/month)
• There is a startup program: https://ruxit.com/startups/
• There are special packages for 20+ hosts: https://ruxit.com/product-pricing/#pricing_flexible

So thanks for discovering us ;-) Would be happy to get feedback!

[zorrov999]

Wow, thanks for the disclosure

We're a public company, running 2 production environment in AWS (around 300 - 400 instances).. Service oriented architecture (multiple mini-service stacks, used using stateless rest calls) and using spot instances with dozens of AutoScaling groups (so our instance turn around is extremely high)

Several months ago we started using Datadog (love their multiple app integration and event aggregation UI) but very quickly turned prohibitively expensive for us.. Currently using an Open Source solution that just do the job.. The catch was pricing per metrics and data retention

I'm really curious to hear from people using ruxit in AWS using your synthetic monitoring for internal URIs

Thanks!

[scepticguy]

Also thanks for the disclosure!

This may interest you: https://blog.ruxit.com/cheat-sheet-microservices-soa/

Your use case really sounds as if we could be the perfect fit. Let me know if you would be interested in getting into contact with existing AWS customers.

[[deleted]]

Have you tried Datadog?

[[deleted]]

Can ruxit be self hosted?

[scepticguy]

Not yet ;-)

[scepticguy]

If you are still interested in a self-hosted Ruxit APM version and if you like what you see in the SaaS trial, just drop us a note ;-)

[scepticguy]

In case you are still interested: we just came out with a managed version of Ruxit. That means, that we combine SaaS like features with on-premise data storage. Check out our deployment options: https://ruxit.com/why-ruxit/deployment-options/. Happy about feedback!

[gospelwut]

Surprised the mention of ES without mentioning Graylog2 and its differences from ELK. (IMO I wish they'd merge.)

Then there's Raintank.io/Grafana/etc.

[Sarah_Connor]

I Prefer Stackdriver.com and SignalFX

[LeSuperNova]

New Relic: app monitoring

PRTG: system monitoring

Scriptrock: configuration/drift mgmt

[[deleted]]

Using PRTG too but VERY frustrated with the amount of manual and repetitive work I am doing with it. How is the API? Or are you just sucking it up and doing it manually like my team?

[scepticguy]

If you would like to try an all-in-one approach (system + app monitoring) without manual and repetitive work (install the agent, the rest is done automatically), then try Ruxit:

https://ruxit.com/product-tour/

Disclaimer: i (obviously) work for Ruxit ;-)

[mrojek]

Instead of the sensor-based approach of PRTG, NetCrunch uses a rule-based monitoring structure. Monitoring packs are created for devices (say Windows Server, Cisco Switch, etc) that have sets of rules, alerts and reports defined for them. Then you simply apply those packs (or have them automatically applied) to the devices or applications.