[fit2rule]

I'm not sure I'm ready to abandon a custom monitoring environment consisting of a shell environment, screen, ssh certs, lugubrious quantities of /proc/, and a fair bit of gnuplot. Seems to me thats all you need? Why commit to a Ruby install for an operator console?

[sakers]

I'm not sure lugubrious means what you intended it to mean. :) At any rate, see my reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6646402 for a sampling of things Rearview brings to the table. The tl;dr is that it's not a NOC tool, it's more for process monitoring whether that be application processes, engineering processes, or business processes. It also does provide a central location for anyone to see the state and history of an application or business unit.

[fit2rule]

>The tl;dr is that it's not a NOC tool, it's more for process monitoring whether that be application processes, engineering processes, or business processes. It also does provide a central location for anyone to see the state and history of an application or business unit.

Ah. I've usually just used email for that. :)

[talbright]

Actually, Rearview started out similar to that. We wanted something more accessible to our large engineering team. It has all the advantages of a web user interface coupled with the powerful capabilities you get with a scripting language.