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.