1. SLEEP BETTER BY
AUTOMATING
MONITORING FOR YOUR
APP
Juan Basso - @jrbasso
System Architect - Zumba Fitness

2. I AM NOT...
Being paid by any company
Associated of any company
Getting any kind of benefit
Professional Talker :D

3. TYPES OF MONITORING
Server Application (Your CakePHP App!)
Client Side (JavaScript, Timing, Content, Privileges)
System Monitoring (CPU, Memory, Network)
Logs (What is Going On)
Metrics (Listen to the Numbers)

4. SERVER APPLICATION
What is happening with your CakePHP app?
Is your app running?
Is your cron apps running as planned?
Why are my requests slow in production?
Works fine on my local!

5. NEW RELIC
Site:
PHP Extension + SaaS
Focused on the Application
Good PHP Integration
Show Slow Queries
Show Slow Transactions
Request Trace Detail
CakePHP Friendly
SLA Reports
http://www.newrelic.com

7. APPDYNAMICS
Site:
SaaS
Focused on Network
Show Slow Queries
Show Slow Transactions
Request Trace Detail
NOT CakePHP Friendly
http://www.appdynamics.com/

9. ZEND SERVER
Site:
Web Server with Monitoring
Store Full Request Detail
Request Trace Detail
All-in-one
http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/

11. APM
Site:
Extension, Free, Poor Documentation
Hard to Install
http://pecl.php.net/package/APM

13. CLIENT SIDE
Can the users hit my pages?
How many users are using my site?
What is the page load time? Is it usable?
Is the user having issues with his browser?
Some users complain about some page, but works on my
local!

14. NEW RELIC (CLIENT SIDE)
Page Load Time
Health Check
Corelate User and Server Requests

16. APPDYNAMICS (CLIENT SIDE)
Page Load Time
Health Check
Corelate User and Server Requests
JavaScript Errors

18. QBAKA
Site: https://qbaka.com
SaaS
Javascript Error Reporting
Require Some JS on the Page

20. REAL TIME VISITORS
Google Analytics ( )
Pingdom ( )
Gauges ( )
https://www.google.com/analytics
https://www.pingdom.com
http://get.gaug.es

21. SYSTEM MONITORING
My app is down! Why?!?! I didn't change the code!
I can connect to the service, but why the app doesn't work?
What part of the system is not working?
Is my server over or under capacity?
Do I need to scale up/down my servers? Should I? Can I?

22. SCOUT
Site:
SaaS
Lots of Charts
Based on Plugins
Ruby Friendly
Alerts by E-mail, SMS, PagerDuty, Web Hooks
https://scoutapp.com/

24. SERVER DENSITY
Site:
SaaS
Cloud, Server and Site Monitoring
Responsive Interface
Alerts by E-mail, SMS, Push Notifications, Web Hooks
Can Re-Scale Instances (from docs)
http://www.serverdensity.com/

26. BOUNDARY
Site:
SaaS
Linux Kernel Module
Deep Network Monitoring
Proactive Alerting (Cristal Ball)
http://boundary.com/

28. NAGIOS
Site:
The Classic! The Legend!
You Have to Manage
Tons of Checkers
Hard To Setup
Ugly Interface
http://www.nagios.org

30. LOGS
What is wrong with my server?
Is my code/server crashing?
How to find an error in a pile of logs?

31. LOGGLY
Site:
SaaS
Combine All Logs
Real-Time
http://loggly.com/

33. PAPERTRAIL
Site:
SaaS
Combine All Logs
Real-Time
https://papertrailapp.com/

35. SPLUNK / SPLUNKSTORM
Site:
Standalone and SaaS
Combine All Logs
Real-Time
Create Filters and Analyzers
http://splunkstorm.com/

37. LOGSTASH + KIBANA 3
Site: and
You Have to Host It
Very Easy to Customize (Custom Dashboards)
Create Filters and Analyzers
Logstash Can Be Distributed
Free / Open Source
http://logstash.net/ http://three.kibana.org/

39. METRICS
How is your audience? Increased a lot? Decreased a lot?
How is your revenue?
Can users from all locations access your site?
Are you selling?
Are you shipping user orders?

40. LIBRATO
Site:
SaaS
Generate Custom Graphs
https://metrics.librato.com/

42. STATSD + GRAPHITE
Site:
Open Source from Etsy (Node.js)
Lightweight
https://github.com/etsy/statsd/

44. SOME METRICS TYPES
Analyzing Logs Quantity
Analyzing Access
Analyzing User Region (country, state)
Analyzing Languages
Analyzing Network
Analyzing RPM (Requests Per Minute)

45. REVIEW - TYPES
Server Application
Client Side
System Monitoring
Logs
Metrics

46. QUESTIONS?

47. THANKS