RM-Manage: Monitor Your Rails Apps

Written on January 25, 2008 by ceefour

RM-Manage is a monitoring product for Rails applications. Their claim:

Building elegant and powerful Rails applications rapidly is important. Ensuring that they perform properly once deployed in production is even more important. A poorly performing or unavailable business-critical application can have a devastating impact on your bottom line, negating the benefits of Rails development.

Rails applications are more than just Rails itself. Databases like MySQL and Oracle, web servers such as Apache, and even the host operating system each affect performance and availability.

Although you may have done a great job designing a well-behaved Rails application, the fact is you won’t know how well it will truly perform until you monitor and respond to it in production. RM-Manage wraps the task of monitoring your applications in a simple and affordable interface.

Application Browser

The Application Browser for Rails allows you to view and filter important performance metrics for your production Rails applications. The application browser quickly gathers collected Model, View and Controller statistics such as averages, slowest and fastest performing models or views and more making it easy to explore application problems and bottlencks.

Screen Highlights

Browse and select a particular system and production Rails application for which to view performance metrics.

See a full list of actions in the selected application grouped by their respective controllers. Select an action to see all its related MVC information.

Take a closer look at the amount of time spent in the controller, model and view layers.

Filter method invocation information by the model, view or controller layer to see common metrics such as average, slowest and fastest invocation times, ordered by severity for the currently selected filter.

As your applications evolve and expand, you will encounter performance and availability problems. How will you troubleshoot and accurately diagnose these issues? How will you know for sure if the problem is a bug, a memory leak, a database connection issue, or a design issue? How will you ensure performance and uptime?

RM-Manage is the first and only Rails application monitoring product to instrument and monitor all aspects of the Rails framework and its supporting infrastructure resources.

RM-Manage makes it easy to design your Rails applications for optimal performance and reliability. Define personalized views of performance data (timings, counts, errors, size) based on how you want to view your application. Use the other integrated monitoring services to provide you with all the tools you’ll need to troubleshoot your application and its underlying infrastructure.