Server Monitoring as a Service
- 2. Cloud Customer Needs
• Cloud user base is expanding
• Cloud-dependent organizations with business-critical web sites &
web applications
• Includes SaaS, eCommerce, web hosting, game hosting, social media
• Hosted in Amazon EC2, Rackspace, public, hybrid, private clouds
• Two emerging classes of users
• 1st generation cloud users: DevOps, early adopters, hands-on, DIY
• 2nd generation cloud users: Sys Admins, ops, demand for less
complexity and more intelligence
• Feedback on current cloud monitoring tools
• Complex: High-maintenance, hard to use & scale & administer,
expensive
• Wrong: false alarms, narrow-focus, fragmented, siloed
• Slow: low-resolution, 1-minute to 15-minute measurements
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- 3. Cloud Server Monitoring Challenges
• Customer Problem
• Today’s cloud monitoring solutions are complex, brittle, fragmented,
and slow
• Early cloud administrators have been forced to rely on first-generation
cloud management tools – legacy, open-source, or one-dimensional
products (e.g., Nagios, Cloudkick, Pingdom)
• New cloud customers are looking for something simple, integrated,
smart, and cost-effective
• CopperEgg Solution: Next Gen Cloud Monitoring
• Simple to try, install, use, and grow via SaaS, utility-based, pay-as-you-
go model
• Smart performance analytics, unified across system, website, and
application tiers
• Fast, high-resolution visibility via a scalable, big data, NoSQL platform
- 4. CopperEgg RevealCloud
• CopperEgg RevealCloud
• Server, system, OS, & process monitoring, analytics, alerting
• Now includes website and web application monitoring (in Beta)
• Smart: purpose-built for cloud environments & hosted servers
• Server-resident, small footprint, no polling, push-only
• Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, Linode
• Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, RedHat, etc.), Windows, MacOS X, FreeBSD
• SaaS delivery, pay-per-use (per hour)
• Fast, non-stop monitoring
• Simple, quick install: 5-seconds and you’re up!
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- 5. Ops-Centric Server Monitoring
• Maximize visibility, detect server outages faster
• Real-time, sub-minute metrics
• Collaborate across all your operations team
• Multi-user access, admin & read-only rights, limit user views by tags
• Integrate with your everyday operations and devops tools
• Chef recipes for automation
• Pagerduty, HipChat, Twitter DM, Basecamp integrations
• Troubleshoot and alarm through advanced cloud analytics
• Composite health metrics roll-up overall server health
• Drill-down and analyze system metrics including various OS, CPU, I/O,
application process. and memory usage details
• Tag-based alarm rules, visibility filters
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- 7. Summary
• Cloud monitoring demands growing
• First generation users losing patience, looking for
something better
• Second generation users demanding less complexity, better
value
• CopperEgg solution
• Simple, smart, fast
• RevealCoud: system, server, OS, & process monitoring
• For more server monitoring information check out
CopperEgg at
• http://www.copperegg.com
• http://www.twitter.com/copperegg
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