Monitoring MongoDB
An overview of monitoring MongoDB with Scout, covering key metrics and setup.
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Production Server Sysadmin Essentials
~ or ~ Sysadmin Eye for the Dev Guy Developers! You can churn out a Rails or Sinatra app in no time. What about putting it out there in production? Occasionally forget the syntax for crontab or...
Production Rails Tuning with Passenger: PassengerMaxProcesses
Tuning PassengerMaxProcesses for production Rails apps to balance memory and performance.
On Sinatra
Sinatra , a Ruby DSL for quickly creating web applications with minimal effort, forms a key part of the Scout infrastructure. James Gray talks about how we use Sinatra at Scout via RubyLearning.org...
The 3 pillars of our Rails Monitoring Stack
The key pillars of Rails application monitoring and how to build a monitoring practice.
Monitor MySQL queries with Scout
Robin Ward of Forumwarz has released a MySQL slow queries plugin for Scout that does exactly what you’d expect: sends an alert when a slow query is run. Derek Laptop"/> The alert contains the full query along with the query time: Alert"/> Note that you’ll need to enable slow query ...