Rails Monitoring: RM-Manage

The industry’s first Rails application monitoring products designed for development through deployment and into production

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.

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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.

Key Features

RM-Manage will help you monitor the production performance of the following framework areas within your Rails applications:

• Controller and Action Performance

  Provides insight into all controller actions allowing you to quickly identify where your application is spending its time. View statistics such as requests per second, average processing time, number of rescues, and response size.

• ActiveRecord Interactions

  Measures and reports on ActiveRecord interactions so you can see which models are being invoked the most and which interactions are the slowest. Allows analysis of important statistics such as number of finds, average find time, slowest find time, fastest find time, along with information on CRUD operations such as the number of operations and timing.

• View Performance and Analysis

  Provides detailed information on global and individual view invocation and rendering performance such as average processing time, the average response size, number of requests, and requests per second.

• Caching Effectiveness

  Displays performance information on both fragment and page caching. Easily view and investigate statistics such as fragments cached per second, total fragments cached, total pages cached, or page caches per second.

• Database Connection Utilization

  Analyzes your application’s use of database connections. Shows detailed information on connections such as connections currently active, connections created per second, removed, and removed per second.

• Transactional Analysis

  Provides visibility into your application’s transactional profile to allow for insight into transactions started, committed, aborted, etc. Also view detailed information such as number of commits, number of commits per second, number of starts, and the number of starts per second.

Manage is simply the most complete and elegant Rails application monitoring product available.

• Sign up for the new Manage 2.0 beta and see for yourself just how easy monitoring your Rails applications and system infrastructure can be.

• Rails Monitoring Made Simple Manage 2.0 Beta: Better than ever, sign up and start monitoring your Rails apps.
• Free Ruby on Rails Stack Updated version 1.1: RM-Install, a FREE integrated, production-ready Rails stack.
• Rails Partners Rails monitoring offered through hosting, development, and consulting partners.

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