Author: Tony Dewan

Monitoring for Docker, MongoDB, Redis and more!

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Today, we’re launching InstrumentalD as a major upgrade and replacement of Instrumental Tools. Since 2011, Instrumental Tools has provided a system metrics daemon and a powerful plugin framework to write custom scripts for service monitoring.

While the ability to write fully custom service monitoring in a language of your choice is an important feature (and we’re keeping the plugin framework!), InstrumentalD includes out-of-the-box service monitoring for the following:

  1. Docker
  2. MySQL
  3. Memcached
  4. MongoDB
  5. Nginx
  6. PostgreSQL
  7. Redis
  8. (and more to come)

For each service, we’ve selected the critical metrics everyone should be monitoring, and we list each metric sent in the service documentation page. Read More

Upgraded Feature: Time Navigation

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Today we’re launching a big upgrade to Instrumental’s time navigation. Before, Instrumental always showed data relative to now, and graphs would always update with new data. That’s great for every-day use. But sometimes, like during incident investigation and root cause analysis, it’s really useful to look at specific start/end dates and times. Read More

New Features: Read-Only Users + Multiple Admins

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We’ve recently added two features that will make it easier for you to manage user roles across your organization.

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You can now invite users with read-only permissions. They’ll be able to see all graphs, metrics, and alerts, but not create, edit or delete them. This role is perfect for trusted partners and less-technical team members (like your CEO). Read More

A New, Better Project Navigation

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Today we’re launching a much improved project navigation.

We used to show all your projects in the sidebar, but that got pretty unruly if you had many projects. Starting today, the sidebar only includes your favorited projects (plus the current project, of course.) How do you favorite projects? Check out the new Instrumental navigation menu! Read More