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by billllll 936 days ago
At the risk of being overly critical sour grapes, I really had tools like Monibot in mind when creating Catalyst.

Out of the box, Monibot throws a bunch of data at you like database size, CPU %, requests, etc. None of these metrics really tell you if something in your webapp is broken. And if you want more useful metrics, you gotta instrument them yourself.

It does do some things that Catalyst critically misses (health checks, e-mail notifications). But at the same time, if you're going to prod, Monibot by itself is not something you'd be comfortable with. You're going to need to add other monitoring tools to get that peace of mind.