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Re: New Relic Boxes – Monitor your servers and applications

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Post by solutionyogi »

no1youknowz wrote: post #8
prohor wrote: post #2

Take a look on https://ruxit.com - the problem concept that it introduce might be what you look for. It is a correlation of events or alerts in whole system that one causes another and it tells the root cause. There is a problem dashboard and you can get notifications when a problem occurs.

Ruxit is horribly expensive. I have 10 servers and something like OpsDash or New Relic is much more cheaper!

Ruxit looked very interesting. But you are right, they are expensive. 0.15$ per host per hour. That means, 0.15 x 24 x 30 = 108$ per month per host.

Compare it to something like Data Dog which costs 15$ per host per month. https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/

Re: New Relic Boxes – Monitor your servers and applications

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Post by xpadash »

solutionyogi wrote: post #11
no1youknowz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ruxit is horribly expensive. I have 10 servers and something like OpsDash or New Relic is much more cheaper!

Ruxit looked very interesting. But you are right, they are expensive. 0.15$ per host per hour. That means, 0.15 x 24 x 30 = 108$ per month per host. Compare it to something like Data Dog which costs 15$ per host per month. https://www.datadoghq.com/pricing/

Let them use boxes, I'm staying with hexagons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRg5kGSHzVY

Re: New Relic Boxes – Monitor your servers and applications

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Post by solutionyogi »

no1youknowz wrote: post #8
prohor wrote: post #2

Take a look on https://ruxit.com - the problem concept that it introduce might be what you look for. It is a correlation of events or alerts in whole system that one causes another and it tells the root cause. There is a problem dashboard and you can get notifications when a problem occurs.

Ruxit is horribly expensive. I have 10 servers and something like OpsDash or New Relic is much more cheaper!

I agree that it is expensive. However, I went through their Product Tour and blogs and it looks like they are taking a very novel approach as far as APM is concerned. Apart from the price, how's the actual experience? Does their AI actually identify the root cause of a problem? Does the no-configuration approach actually work?

Re: New Relic Boxes – Monitor your servers and applications

#15

Post by pc86 »

thecodemonkey wrote: post #5
danielbentov wrote: post #3

Ruxit looks great. But ours is free and opened source.

Except that it requires New Relic which is not exactly free and open source :)

You are correct, but if you happen to have an MSDN license that gives you access to Azure, it is! We use New Relic for test and production monitoring and it's great.

Re: New Relic Boxes – Monitor your servers and applications

#16

Post by nacs »

joeyrobert wrote: post #12

That alarm sound is awful and it's not clear why it's playing. Edit: Linking to NewRelic by clicking on the boxes would be useful. Also perhaps a config file/server instead of using local storage to save credentials (so I can send the URL to colleagues).

The alarm sound for those curious:

http://info.ahs.kitasato-u.ac.jp/tkweb/alarm/NPB-290-high.wa...

Strange that it's linking to a remote website (a university in Japan no less) just for the sound instead of using a locally hosted copy.

Re: New Relic Boxes – Monitor your servers and applications

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Post by nasalgoat »

jon-wood wrote: post #10
no1youknowz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ruxit is horribly expensive. I have 10 servers and something like OpsDash or New Relic is much more cheaper!

Wow, anything that can be compared to New Relic and come out cheaper really must cost a fortune. New Relic are great, but at the moment they're probably the most expensive part of our infrastructure (including servers, through virtue of AWS giving hefty account credits to companies in incubators).

The secret to NewRelic is to deploy it on a limited number of servers to monitor performance and use an open source monitoring tool like Icinga to do actual monitoring.

Re: New Relic Boxes – Monitor your servers and applications

#18

Post by berzniz »

nacs wrote: post #16
joeyrobert wrote: post #12

That alarm sound is awful and it's not clear why it's playing. Edit: Linking to NewRelic by clicking on the boxes would be useful. Also perhaps a config file/server instead of using local storage to save credentials (so I can send the URL to colleagues).

The alarm sound for those curious: http://info.ahs.kitasato-u.ac.jp/tkweb/alarm/NPB-290-high.wa... Strange that it's linking to a remote website (a university in Japan no less) just for the sound instead of using a locally hosted copy.

It's on GitHub, issue a pull request with a fix

Re: New Relic Boxes – Monitor your servers and applications

#19

Post by AloisReitbauer »

no1youknowz wrote: post #8
prohor wrote: post #2

Take a look on https://ruxit.com - the problem concept that it introduce might be what you look for. It is a correlation of events or alerts in whole system that one causes another and it tells the root cause. There is a problem dashboard and you can get notifications when a problem occurs.

Ruxit is horribly expensive. I have 10 servers and something like OpsDash or New Relic is much more cheaper!

Ruxit is actually cheaper than New Relic by about 149 if you use it 24x7 and commit to an annual contract. Ruxit is pure pay-as-you go.

Why do you think this is more expensive?

Re: New Relic Boxes – Monitor your servers and applications

#20

Post by AloisReitbauer »

no1youknowz wrote: post #8
prohor wrote: post #2

Take a look on https://ruxit.com - the problem concept that it introduce might be what you look for. It is a correlation of events or alerts in whole system that one causes another and it tells the root cause. There is a problem dashboard and you can get notifications when a problem occurs.

Ruxit is horribly expensive. I have 10 servers and something like OpsDash or New Relic is much more cheaper!

Ruxit is actually cheaper than New Relic by about 40 USD if you use it 24x7 and commit to an annual contract. Ruxit is pure pay-as-you go.

Why do you think this is more expensive?

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