Archive for September, 2010
Monitoring rails processes (apache, passenger, delayed_job) using god and capistrano
When it comes to monitoring servers and processes in production, there is quite a few open source tools: nagios and hyperic are proven solutions for enterprise apps. Monit and god are the favorites of ruby/rails community. God has been around for a few years now and most critical issues with god seem resolved. So, I decided to use that on my project.
If you’ve worked with any deployment related stuff before, you know that it hardly ever goes as planned. With few machines involved, few processes, file/folder permissions and process permissions, there is bound to be things that will take longer. God is no different. And no wonder you will find wiki/forum posts from folks who’ve been thru it. I had my share of those and in the end I am happy with the config I found.
Here is a journey as it went:
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