# RoR Monitoring Solutions

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-monitoring-solutions/141624>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 27, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-monitoring-solutions/141624 "2008-06-27T21:30:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-monitoring-solutions/141624/1 "2008-06-27T21:30:52Z")

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Good Afternoon My Friends,  
I was testing out RPM by NewRelic and I really like it but to watch 20  
mongrels on 3 servers it is going to cost me $250/month which is almost  
50%  
of my hosting costs which if you ask me is a little ridiculous. I would  
pay  
$65 without blinking but $250 is just ridiculous.

What are other people using?

–  
John K.  
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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-monitoring-solutions/141624/2 "2008-06-28T02:06:33Z")

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On Jun 27, 2008, at 12:30 PM, John K. wrote:

> Good Afternoon My Friends,
> 
> I was testing out RPM by NewRelic and I really like it but to watch  
> 20 mongrels on 3 servers it is going to cost me $250/month which is  
> almost 50% of my hosting costs which if you ask me is a little  
> ridiculous. I would pay $65 without blinking but $250 is just  
> ridiculous.
> 
> What are other people using?

Not using, but you might look at [fiveruns.com](http://fiveruns.com) – pricing also seemed  
high IIRC

Otherwise, monit & nagios combined. That’s what we use.

– gw

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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-monitoring-solutions/141624/3 "2008-06-28T02:18:50Z")

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A little bird told me that one hosting company offers  
NewRelic RPM free to all customers. 🙂

–  
– Tom M., CTO  
– Engine Y., Ruby on Rails Hosting  
– Support, Scalability, Reliability  
– (866) 518-YARD (9273) x201

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**Author:** ![johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@johnk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnk)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ror-monitoring-solutions/141624/4 "2008-06-28T04:36:14Z")

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What about the watch-dog script “monit”?