Real-world Scout at Rails Machine

Josh Nichols of Rails Machine on their monitoring philosophy:

Measure all the metrics and alert on metrics that are actionable.

If you’ve got a bunch of servers, you’re going to want to read Josh Nichols’ How we roll with Scout article on the Rails Machine blog.

Rails Machine is a Ruby on Rails-focused managed hosting provider, which means they’re on the front lines when performance goes bad. From plugins to alerting, Josh details how they stay proactive on performance.