Scout Realtime

Infrastructure

server monitoring

SHOW HN2014

346points
115comments
#38of 2,272 in 2014
Top 2%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

4 positive, 30 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 16 critical, out of 53 comments about the project. Thread score -0.25.

Execution: 2 for, 6 againstDesign: 2 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 5 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean, nice-looking real-time charts

    From 3 comments
    • They said they use it on their own production servers so of course I couldn't resist... http://scoutapp.com:5555/ Really nice looking monitoring, though. I think it's fun to see…
      jakejake on HN
    • I like it, but why not use something like htop? [1] Perhaps it's not entirely comparable, but you do not need to open any extra ports or run any extra processes. It looks really…
      flexd on HN
    • I've recently released a similar tool for Python. Definitely not as pretty but with a focus on providing a lot of details: https://github.com/Jahaja/psdash The more the merrier! :)
      jahaja on HN
  • Useful for quickly seeing what the server is doing

    From 1 comment
    • I love htop too, but the great thing about scout_realtime is the couple minutes of context provided the charts. Sometimes, nothing beats seeing a chart to quickly see what's…
      acl on HN

Objections

  • Browser CPU and memory use is high, fans spin up

    From 4 comments
    • It is burning my CPU (browser side, not server side) http://i.imgur.com/NgXi4LG.png The author should provide configuration so it does not get data from stats.json every second.
      keimoon on HN
    • Looks nice, but it slowly turns my laptop into a fireball and pegs an entire core (older laptop).
      stock_toaster on HN
    • kills the cpu on my mac with Chrome Version 34.0.1847.11 beta
      hnriot on HN
    • The web page makes firefox gobbles more and more RAM until it crashes. You've found a firefox bug :) (FF 27.1 Linux).
      wazoox on HN
  • Fails on OSX and FreeBSD because it relies on procfs

    From 2 comments
    • Thanks again for reporting - we've released version 1.0.1 to fix the issue: gem install scout_realtime Note that OSX support is limited as there is no "/proc" support.
      itsderek23 on HN
    • Can you guys add a if/else clause in sinatra and add a FreeBSD logo?[1] I see tux in my FreeBSD server and feels weird. [1]…
      atmosx on HN
  • Requires Ruby and is awkward to install

    From 3 comments
    • Nice, but it requires ruby :S I been using this https://github.com/abimaelmartell/system_monitor, easy to install and dont eat too much ram :P
      steve02 on HN
    • Noob to Ruby here...any thoughts on why gem_original_require is screwing me up? Thanks for the cool looking tool! /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in…
      telot on HN
    • I just tried out the main product and while it's easy to setup i ran into snags with the plugins right away. Both redis and postgres (the first two i tried) failed to install and…
      tijs on HN

Requests

  • Add HTTPS and login authentication

    From 1 comment
    • Any way of enforcing HTTPS and login/password auth? I would love to be able to use this on a set of public servers...
      Therac20 on HN
  • Bind to localhost only

    From 1 comment
    • And I should add that this thing is awesome! It wouldn't install for me unless I was root, but that might be a ruby configuration thing, since this is also the first ruby app…
      primo44 on HN
  • Configurable refresh rate

    From 2 comments
    • It is burning my CPU (browser side, not server side) http://i.imgur.com/NgXi4LG.png The author should provide configuration so it does not get data from stats.json every second.
      keimoon on HN
    • This looks nice but that /s refresh it might cause issues, maybe add a setting so refresh can be set by user? Shameless plug - If anyone is looking for a python/django…
      k3oni on HN
  • Support for publishing custom data over a socket

    From 1 comment
    • Did you roll your own SVG chart lib for this? If not, mind sharing which one you're using? It's very nice. If you were to make it so I can open a socket or websocket to it…
      benjamincburns on HN

Questions

  • How much CPU does the daemon use?

    From 1 comment
    • Quick question. How much CPU usage/time does the monitoring tool itself utilize ?
      jggonz on HN
  • How does it compare to New Relic?

    From 1 comment
    • Does this solve the same problem that new relic does? If not, what is the difference?
      jonahx on HN
  • How to view multiple servers on one screen?

    From 1 comment

Alternatives named

  • htop

    From 1 comment
    • I like it, but why not use something like htop? [1] Perhaps it's not entirely comparable, but you do not need to open any extra ports or run any extra processes. It looks really…
      flexd on HN
  • glances

    From 1 comment
    • That is true, charts are nice. I actually mostly use glances [1]. I forgot to mention glances in my comment. [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Glances
      flexd on HN
  • New Relic

    From 1 comment
    • Does this solve the same problem that new relic does? If not, what is the difference?
      jonahx on HN
  • Nagios

    From 1 comment
    • I just tried out the main product and while it's easy to setup i ran into snags with the plugins right away. Both redis and postgres (the first two i tried) failed to install and…
      tijs on HN

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