Scout monitors your server and application infrastructure and alerts you when something goes wrong. Scout’s plugin system provides metrics for Rails applications, Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, and more. Pusher powers Scout’s real-time charts, providing live metrics from any number of your servers. We’ve chatted with founder Andre Lewis, who told us a bit more \[…\]
Scout monitors your server and application infrastructure and alerts you when something goes wrong. Scout’s plugin system provides metrics for Rails applications, Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, and more. Pusher powers Scout’s real-time charts, providing live metrics from any number of your servers. We’ve chatted with founder Andre Lewis, who told us a bit more about how Scout works.
Scout is stress-free server and application monitoring. Scout takes metrics from all the important parts of your infrastructure — MySQL, Memcached, HaProxy, disk usage, Phusion Passenger, Rails, and many more — and alerts you via email or SMS if something goes wrong. Need data not provided by one of Scout’s 60+ plugins? Roll your own Scout plugins in Ruby.
Pusher powers Scout’s realtime charts. Realtime charts are a special “burst mode,” intended for brief debugging or troubleshooting sessions when you need maximum visibility into your infrastructure.
Realtime provides up-to-the-second metrics from any number of servers – previously, this just wasn’t possible. Before realtime charts, the closest you could get (with or without Scout) was to open a bunch of terminal windows, arrange them on your monitor, run ‘top’ in each, and try to keep an eye on everything. Realtime gives you a much broader selection of metrics, presents them all on one web page, and provides it all through a simple web-based UI.
We needed to ensure that only members of the originating Scout account have access to realtime data as it flows through Pusher, but we didn’t want the extra complexity of private channels. Here’s how we handle security: