Munin-Rails-Plugins¶ ↑

Collection of Concise Munin plugins for Rails server environments. This will make monitoring your rails app a piece of cake.

This project contains munin plugins that not only work in munin, but are also concise (see references). Most things in this repository rely heavily on the request-log-analyzer gem.

What’s in the box?¶ ↑

passenger_memory_stats - Munin plugin to monitor the memory usage of passenger application servers.
passenger_status - Running, active and maximum number of passenger instances as well as sessions.
rails_database_time - Min, avg, max of database times.
rails_request_duration - Min, avg, max of the total request durations.
rails_request_error - Application errors and process blocker counters.
rails_requests - Get, put, post and delete requests.
rails_view_render_time - Min, avg and max view render times.

For screenshots, head over to: barttenbrinke.github.com/munin-plugins-rails/

Installation¶ ↑

The plugins follows the default munin installation scheme:

git clone git://github.com/barttenbrinke/munin-plugins-rails.git
cp munin-plugins-rails/rails_requests /usr/share/munin/plugins/
chmod +x /usr/share/munin/plugins/rails_requests
ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/rails_requests /etc/munin/plugins/rails_requests
vi /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node

Paste the configuration from the documentation of rails_requests into the munin-node file.

[rails_requests]
env.log_file '/path/to/production.log'
user www-data
command /usr/local/bin/ruby %c

Run “/etc/munin/plugins/rails_requests autoconf” and “munin-run rails_requests” to test the plugin.

For more detailed information, see the documentation embedded in the plugin. Each plugin is packed with an example config and a ln -s you can copy.

Monitoring multiple applications¶ ↑

If you want to run the plugin for more than one app the best way is to symlink the plugin multiple times. Also set a different graph_category for each of app. For instance:

ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/rails_requests /etc/munin/plugins/rails_app1_requests
ln -s /usr/share/munin/plugins/rails_requests /etc/munin/plugins/rails_app2_requests

And in the munin-node file:

[rails_app1_*]
env.log_file '/path/to/app1/production.log'
env.graph_category App1

[rails_app2_*]
env.log_file '/path/to/app2/production.log'
env.graph_category App2

Problems¶ ↑

sudo gem install request-log-analyzer
Check if the paths in the plugin configuration are correct.
Make sure the specified user is allowed to write to /tmp and access your rails logfile.

If you encounter performance problems with your app, please take a look at the request-log-analyzer wiki on examples on how to drill down to the core of your problem. If you want to hire an expert, please visit us at railsdoctors.com or mail me at: bart@railsdoctors.com

Happy monitoring!

Additional information¶ ↑