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These tools are great for looking at what's happening now if you're logged into the server. They're complemented by monitoring products like: Self hosted: - Nagios (already mentioned in the post) - Cacti / Munin Hosted: - http://www.serverdensity.com (tool my company produces) - http://www.cloudkick.com (monitoring + cloud infrastructure management) - http://www.scoutapp.com these give you similar metrics plus various other things like alerting, graphs, mobile apps, etc.

I congratulate the Mailgun team and I wish them all the best, but Rackspace's previous acquisitions bode ill for the future of Mailgun. Rackspace acquired CloudKick in late 2010 and Anso Labs in February of 2011. Both teams must have been put on other projects, because their products have stagnated. CloudKick no longer lets people sign up. Their blog, https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/, has broken images and few updates. I couldn't find any products by Anso Labs, so I googled the founders. It looks like they no longer work at Rackspace: http://gigaom.com/cloud/openstack-developers-leave-rackspace-for-nebul… Again I wish the best for Mailgun, but I really hope they know what they're getting into. If I were a customer, I would be wary right now.

It hasn't been well publicized after the original announcement (and isn't prominently placed on their plans page, either) but I've had great success with Cloudkick's free developer plan on my personal virt (which is still down..): https://www.cloudkick.com/accounts/signup/developer/ CK sent me a text message as soon as my host went down earlier, which gave me time to file the ticket against Linode. Only caveat - they don't provide a signed RPM, which can cause some administrative hardship for linux users using rpm-based distributions (most of the yum operations require you to add an extra cli option to allow working with unsigned rpm's), but it's a minor complaint given that their agent isn't mandatory and doesn't need a lot of updates.

Cloudkick looks nice and I have great respect for the tech team behind it, but it's seriously overpriced. I don't mind paying for Saas (and pay many thousands a month for all sorts of services), but this is ridiculous: https://www.cloudkick.com/pricing/ I love how the page suggests that the $949/month plan is somehow the 'default'. :)

It's never too early to think about monitoring and metrics. In my opinion you should collect metrics on everything you can think of: 1) How long does it take for my page to load? 2) How long is this database query taking? 3) How long does this API call take? 4) How much storage am I using? et cetera. Your metrics should give you keen insight into common system metrics as well as application level metrics. Your metrics should show you your trends and tell you when you need to add capacity and / or improve performance. Cloudkick (http://cloudkick.com) is doing (among other things) a lot to make not only metrics collection but monitoring simple. I'd check them out.

I'm keeping an eye on http://www.cloudkick.com/ (the core feature is management), but it isn't flying yet.

You're not at all specific about what you think those tools lack. They're both pretty complete, and it's anyone's guess what you think professionalism means. There's a YC company alternative: https://www.cloudkick.com/ Personally, I've found making my own utilities for AWS to be trivial, so that's what I do.

Cloudkick, San Francisco CA. Currently all FT positions are intended to be on-location. A YC Company from W09, we are hacking up server monitoring and management space. (Both cloud and non-cloud). Our tech is mostly Python based, with a spattering of Java, C, C++, Lua, and Node.js. We love fast product cycles, shipping features early, so we can get the customer feedback loop going as quickly as possible. Positions: * Frontend Web Developer: We started out with inline JQuery, but all new features are built around using the Google Closure library. We are moving towards a much more complete client side user experience, and busy building out widgets for many components. Love hacking on the Frotnend, come check us out! * Customer Engineer: A combination of customer advocate and a generalist that can hack on any part of the Cloudkick system. We want someone who can both talk to customers, and then go fix their top issues the same day. 90% Python hacking, in both a Django and Twisted environments, but can include C/C++/Lua/Node.js if desired. * Deployment Developer: Cloudkick is known for Monitoring, but we are doing something different with Deployment. This position will probably be about 80% hacking in Node.js code, and 20% in Python. Experience in distributed systems / p2p / large scale server management are all major major pluses. * Inside Sales Rep: We are B2B startup, offering a SaaS product to the world, and we need help making and converting customers.…

CloudKick ( http://cloudkick.com ) - Configurable server monitoring with SMS alerts. Love this service. CoTweet ( http://cotweet.com ) - Shared Twitter account management. Great for support and guerrilla marketing. Uservoice ( http://uservoice.com ) - User feedback and support management. Dropbox ( http://dropbox.com ) - File sharing - we share the business dropbox with our individual dropboxes to share files. Droplr ( http://droplr.com ) - Screenshot capture and sharing. Also allows for file sharing. As mentioned by others: GitHub ( http://github.com ) - VCS Google Apps ( http://www.google.com/a ) - Email and documents. Pivotal Tracker ( http://www.pivotaltracker.com ) - Project management and issue tracking. Wordpress ( http://wordpress.com ) - Blog. These are very specific to Rails, but extremely useful: New Relic RPM ( http://newrelic.com ) - Deeply integrated Ruby on Rails app monitoring and performance measurement. Immensely helpful for troubleshooting and analysis, including slow query detection/explanation, etc. Hoptoad ( http://www.hoptoadapp.com ) - Rails exception monitoring and alerting.

Is it this one? https://www.cloudkick.com/

Here is a link to the original news on the project website http://cast-project.org/news/2011/announcing-cast-preview-release/ and a blog post on the Cloudkick website https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2011/apr/26/cast-the-open-deployment-pl…

San Francisco. Cloudkick @ Rackspace. We really need some more front-end engineers. If you're good with JavaScript please give us a call. http://cloudkick.com/careers We're about to move into a brand new office, so it should be fun. Offer a lot of freedom and challenging responsibilities.

Thats essentially what Node.js is, although with a heavy focus on asynchronous operation. Check out: https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2010/aug/23/writing-nodejs-native-exten…

For those not ready for a larger server plan, we do offer a free-forever Developer plan ... https://www.cloudkick.com/developers

TechCrunch: "Cloudkick Now Managing 1 Million Servers" Cloudkick Blog: "...we've just hit 1,000,000 servers registered all-time in Cloudkick." Those statements aren't even close to equivalent. The HN guidelines say it well: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter. https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2010/oct/14/one-million-servers/

I find it really annoying that these tech news sites (read TechCrunch) never link to the company. Always to crunchbase or in this case some silly twitter search about Cloudkick. Anyway, they do seem to have pretty good coverage for the major providers (https://www.cloudkick.com/providers/) Anyone used their service in production?