So just as I post about RM-Image, I started playing around with FiveRun’s RM-Manage… I’m in love.
RM-Manage is a server / application management suite that aims to help out people in the Ruby on Rails world.
We’ve been playing with our demo account all morning and I did some digging.
Essentially the idea is… install a monitor process, store your metrics in json, upload it to RM-Manage system, and view the reports online. The best part is that it’s all automated and transparent.
They accomplish the metrics system by hijacking the collection points on your classes. Save, update, create, destroy, find, etc on ActiveRecord. There could be some performance risks associated with this…
It can also manage system statistics and other processes. Disk space issues, CPU usage, MySQL uptime, etc. Pretty freaking amazing the amount of data it collects.
With built in notification it’s definitely a winner… now to figure out their pricing scheme. Bad move. Make your prices easily available.
Here’s a quick screencap:
