Plugins Directory |
Scout DEMO is a Rails monitoring & reporting application that's powered by plugins. These small Ruby scripts can do just about anything - from watching for slow web requests to monitoring memory usage. Once you have a Scout account, installing a plugin is a button-click away. Existing plugins - created by us and the community - are listed below.  |
All 52 Plugins (Ordered by Popularity)
Ruby on Rails Monitoring
Monitors a Ruby on Rails application's performance, providing rich alerts on slow requests and a detailed daily performance report. Nothing to install in your Rails app - just provide a full path to the log file.
Server Load
Monitors the load on server, generating an alert if the load over the last minute is greater than a specified amount.
Disk Usage
Monitors the amount of space remaining on a disk, generating an alert if the amount of space used exceeds a given percentage.
Memory Profiler
Returns a profile of the system's memory usage (memory used, % memory used, swap used, % swap used, etc). Requires procfs.
Process Usage
Monitors the memory usage of a process, generating an alert if it exceeds a specified threshold.
URL Monitoring
Monitors the availability of a URL, sending an alert if the URL is not reachable.
The following data is reported:
* Url Reachable (1 if reachable, 0 if not)
* Response Time (secs)
Server Uptime
Returns the length of time since the last server restart.
Device Input/Output (iostat)
Reports the current utilization.
MySQL Slow Queries
Monitors for slow MySQL queries and generates an alert (containing the queries) whey they occur.
MySQL Statistics
Returns the number of each of type of query (delete, insert, update, select, and total).
Requires the MySQL gem.
Phusion Passenger Monitor
Tracks Passenger's VM size, process count, and the amount of private memory it has squirreled away. You can also elect to be emailed if any of these statistics crosses a line you indicate.
Network Throughput
Measures network in/out in KB per sec and packets per sec.
Apache Log Analyzer
Provides statistics from an Apache access log: request distribution by hour, most popular URIs, traffic sorted by sum, and traffic sorted by mean. Just install this plugin in Scout and provide the full path to the Apache access log file.
Delayed Job
Monitors Delayed Job, a Database-backed asynchronous priority queue.
Mongrel Cluster Monitor
Monitors mongrel clusters, reports uptime, and attempts restarts of down mongrels.
Sphinx Monitoring
Monitors Sphinx, an open-source SQL full-text search engine.
EC2 CloudWatch
Get graphs, alerts, and trends on your CloudWatch data. Captures NetworkIn, NetworkOut, DiskReadOps, DiskWriteOps, DiskReadBytes, DiskWriteBytes, and CPUUtilization on a single instance or an autoscaling group.
Keep Process Running
This plugin simply monitors the active running processes to see if a specific process is running.
Nginx monitoring
Monitors Nginx, reporting the total # of requests, the total number of connections, and the number of connections reading, writing, and waiting.
Apache Load
Monitors Apache traffic, reporting throughput in requests per-second.
Memcached Monitor
Provides stats on your memcached instance, including gets/ sets/ hits/ misses/ evictions/ per second, uptime, memory used, KB read per second, KB written per second, and more.
Starling Monitor
Monitors the number of items in a starling queue, generating an alert if the maximum queue depth is exceeded for a given queue.
Active Logins
Track the number of people logged into your server (via console, ssh, telnet, etc.) at a particular time.
Rails Session Monitoring
Checks for old Ruby on Rails sessions in your database, reporting the number of total sessions and old sessions.
Memcached Monitor
Monitor the response of a memcached server. Sets a value and gets it back, generating an alert if the response time exceeds a given threshold.
RabbitMQ Queue Monitoring
Monitors a given RabbitMQ Queue
MongoDB Slow Queries
Reports slow queries based on the threshold (100ms or greater) you specify. Provides details on queries that are slow. This plugin is BETA.
Timestamp Monitor
Checks the timestamp on a given file, generating an alert if the timestamp of the file is older than a given threshold.
Monitor /proc/mdstat
Monitors /proc/mdstat for disk failures.
Passenger Status
Provides metrics on Passengers internal state, including the number of application instances that are currently alive, the number of instances that are currently processing requests, and the number of idle instances.
Redis Monitoring
Monitors a Redis database, reporting commands per-second, connections per-second, Used Memory, and more.
MySQL Replication Monitor
Monitors the replication for a master-slave MySQL database setup reporting the number of seconds the slave is behind the master.
RabbitMQ Overall Monitoring
Monitors RabbitMQ, an enterprise messaging system based on the emerging AMQP standard.
Google Analytics
Returns the number of page views and visits for the current day.
Facebook Content Monitor
A simple monitor that will login to Facebook and then fetch a given URL and make sure it contains a string. This is useful for making sure you don't get a maintenance page or an error page.
Ruby on Rails Single Path Request Monitoring
Monitors requests to a SINGLE PATH (ie - /forums/show) in a Ruby on Rails web application, alerting when slow web requests occur.
Monitor time drift from official NIST time
Checks time with NIST using daytime and calculates drift with the host being monitored. Alerts based on a user settable value indicating maximum drift.
URL Content Monitor
This plugin looks for a given piece of text on a web page. If it's not found, an alert is generated.
Mongrel Cluster Monitor
Uses mongrel_rails cluster::status to determine if any mongrels in your cluster have gone down. Sends alerts and attempts to restart when mongrels go down.
FeedBurner Stats
Returns the feed circulation and hits from yesterday for the given feed.
Yahoo Total Entries
Returns the total number of entries for each of the provided search terms. Separate multiple terms with a ",".
Monitor that a dynamic DNS address is current
Compares your current IP address to the hostname provided and checks to see that they are equal. This must be running behind or on the dynamic address.
Check Permissions
Looks at all files in a directory and ensures that each has the specified owner, group, and mode.
