Plugins Directory |
Scout is a Rails monitoring & reporting application that's powered by plugins. These small Ruby scripts can do just about anything - from watching for slow web requests to monitoring memory usage. Once you have a Scout account, installing a plugin is a button-click away. Existing plugins - created by us and the community - are listed below.  |
All 32 Plugins (Ordered by Popularity)
Ruby on Rails Request Monitoring
Monitors ALL requests to a Ruby on Rails web application, alerting when slow web requests occur. Reports the total number of requests, the number of slow requests, and the average execution time.
Server Load
Monitors the load on server, generating an alert if the load over the last minute is greater than a specified amount.
Disk Usage
Monitors the amount of space remaining on a disk, generating an alert if the amount of space used exceeds a given percentage.
Memory Profiler
Returns a profile of the system's memory usage (memory used, % memory used, swap used, % swap used, etc). Requires procfs.
Process Usage
Monitors the memory usage of a process, generating an alert if it exceeds a specified threshold.
URL Monitoring
Monitors the availability of a URL, sending an alert if the URL is not reachable.
Server Uptime
Returns the length of time since the last server restart.
Phusion Passenger Monitor
Tracks Passenger's VM size, process count, and the amount of private memory it has squirreled away. You can also elect to be emailed if any of these statistics crosses a line you indicate. As an added bonus, this plugin also tracks the same statistics fo
Mongrel Cluster Monitor
Monitors mongrel clusters, reports uptime, and attempts restarts of down mongrels.
MySQL Slow Queries
Monitors for slow MySQL queries and generates an alert (containing the queries) whey they occur.
Keep Process Running
This plugin simply monitors the active running processes to see if a specific process is running.
MySQL Statistics
Returns the number of each of type of query (delete, insert, update, select, and total).
Starling Monitor
Monitors the number of items in a starling queue, generating an alert if the maximum queue depth is exceeded for a given queue.
Active Logins
Track the number of people logged into your server (via console, ssh, telnet, etc.) at a particular time.
Memcached Monitor
Monitor the response of a memcached server. Sets a value and gets it back, generating an alert if the response time exceeds a given threshold.
Rails Session Monitoring
Checks for old Ruby on Rails sessions in your database, reporting the number of total sessions and old sessions.
Monitor /proc/mdstat
Monitors /proc/mdstat for disk failures.
Nginx monitoring
Monitors Nginx, reporting the total # of requests, the total number of connections, and the number of connections reading, writing, and waiting.
Google Analytics
Returns the number of page views and visits for the current day.
Yahoo Total Entries
Returns the total number of entries for each of the provided search terms. Separate multiple terms with a ",".
Ruby on Rails Single Path Request Monitoring
Monitors requests to a SINGLE PATH (ie - /forums/show) in a Ruby on Rails web application, alerting when slow web requests occur.
Lighthouse Open Tickets
Returns the total number of open tickets for a specific project in a Lighthouse account.
FeedBurner Stats
Returns the feed circulation and hits from yesterday for the given feed.
Monitor time drift from official NIST time
Checks time with NIST using daytime and calculates drift with the host being monitored. Alerts based on a user settable value indicating maximum drift.
Facebook Content Monitor
A simple monitor that will login to Facebook and then fetch a given URL and make sure it contains a string. This is useful for making sure you don't get a maintenance page or an error page.
HopToAd Unresolved Errors
Returns the total number of unresolved errors from a HopToAdd project.
Check Permissions
Looks at all files in a directory and ensures that each has the specified owner, group, and mode.
Monitor that a dynamic DNS address is current
Compares your current IP address to the hostname provided and checks to see that they are equal. This must be running behind or on the dynamic address.
MySQL Replication Monitor
Monitors the replication for a master-slave MySQL database setup reporting the number of seconds the slave is behind the master.
Timestamp Monitor
Checks the timestamp on a given file, generating an alert if the timestamp of the file is older than a given threshold.
URL Content Monitor
This plugin looks for a given piece of text on a web page. If it's not found, an alert is generated.
