Do you guys know an alternative to NewRelic that doesn't charge you with a hefty price tag. $150/host/month is ridiculous. Having 20 servers means you are paying $3000 per month just to maintain some data and show pretty charts.
What do you recommend for a free-reasonable dashboard that can show server performance/response time metrics, as well as custom application data.
AppDynamics, Splunk, Precise, Logic Monitor, Netscaler, RRDtool, even tools like Webalyzer and AWStats give fun charts. I'm sure a few seconds on Google you can find tons more.
It all depends also on what data you've got, what is generating it, how you want to work it, and what types of reporting and charts you need.
Yeah there are plenty, but I am hoping someone here would give a strong recommendation on any of these services they have used.
I am looking for something close to NewRelic APM: tracking HTTP status codes, raising alarms when the error rate raises beyond a certain level, tracking response time.
Some of my apps also emit its own custom data in JSON. So being able to filter them based on a certain key is nice. I am using SemaText right now for this, although it works, the user interface has been buggy.
Another one that would be nice is something like nagios.
If I can put these metrics into an all-in-one service, that's the ideal case that I am looking for right now.
I've used SPLUNK it does everything you want. I'm not sure how much it costs as I was working for a very large corporation (multinational bank) so they were paying the bills.
Yeah there are plenty, but I am hoping someone here would give a strong recommendation on any of these services they have used.
I've used AppDynamics, Splunk, and RRDTools, all of them are able to the tasks you mention: recording stats and generating alerts.
I wouldn't give any of them a strong recommendation, they all have different strengths and weaknesses.
I mean, it isn't hard to find lists and comparisons of the products, here are 40 of them and list only includes about half of the products mentioned in this thread. Some are bound to be a better fit -- and others a worse fit -- for your specific situation.
I have pretty deep insight into working with ruxit, as it's the company I'm with :-)
However, this is not the place I usually do business, so I'm not going to talk marketing here.
Compared to New Relic or AppDynamics one of the main differentiators is that it's pretty much ready-to-go. Install the monitoring agent and everything else is auto-detection, zero-conf or whatever you'd like to call it.
Compared to Nagios, it does all that - again - without any configuration necessary.
Concerning everything else, I suggest you just give it a try. Whether you like it or not probably pretty much depends on what you expect.
There's an extended free trial available, maybe that's the best way to find out.
Concerning your number of hosts, just contact us for a quote.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask here or PM me.
Sorry again guys, I hope I was able to put my in an objective way.
