Librato

Every webmaster has over time with maintenance of a major website found it necessary to monitor how much an individual event is used.

Many of these can usually be measured using tools like google analytics.

But as a developer, I often look at stuff like Watchdog errors or how many web-orders failed, and other events most of those tools don't covers.

For this I use Librato.com which allows me to transfer and show this informations, or any other events in nice interface, all I got to do is add an rules event and activate cron.

One of the advantages I get from this is the ability to overview a number of websites with the same metrics.

Another is the ability it offers to put an alert on a given event like zero items on stock, or if the amount of errors in watchdog suddenly increases big time.

To insure this module don’t causes a hi load on the website we use a cron task to send the informations to Librato, this allow the admin to do this in consideration to other tasks the website might have.

With the support for rules only your imagination defines what you can track, enjoy.

Requirements

- An account to Librato.com
- Rules module
- Cron running

Todo:

- Add more optional presets on the settings page
- Add examples from two projects to this page (coming soon)

Even as the setup is pretty easy made, the Metrics names might need some explanation.

When we create an rule it asks you to specify an name for the Metrics to be logged, it is strict on characters, so create it like you would "machine names".

Example:
shop.orders.total