Ruby on Rails Application Monitoring Tools
My father used to say, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. Hmmm… I hope he was wrong. In any case, I had good intentions when I wrote my previous blog post. I really was going to try and write blog posts frequently. Unfortunately, in my mad dash to get the first phase of our new application done I focused totally on coding and blogging fell by the wayside. Well, my intentions are good again and I’m really, really going to try to keep up with these posts.
Today we released our new web application - Share Astronomy. I’ll let you read all about it on the web site itself. However, I did want to use a couple posts to talk about some of the technology.
One of the most important decisions we had to make during development was what tools to use for application monitoring. The tools we chose were:
- Hoptoad for exception reporting.
- Pingdom to track uptime.
- New Relic for monitoring application performance problems
- Google Analytics to measure website traffic among other things.
Are these the “best” choices? To be honest, I’m not sure yet. Time will tell and I’ll share the good, the bad and the lessons learned as things progress. In my next post I’ll talk about our experiences so far with Hoptoad. The next post will be soon. Really.