24 6 / 2008
Keeping the eye on the tiger (or cloud) [monitoring services/cloud]
I called it.
I saw this coming based on a previous blog post on how all of the cloud based services seem to be reaching critical mass – and shutting off inadvertantly – without much notice. Well, as Stephen King says, everything is eventual.
CloudStatus (courtesy of Hyperic) has made it’s appearance and it is well placed to be the all-in-one free monitoring service of choice. Currently, this appropriately named CloudStatus watches over the suite of cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS). It offers a pretty simple, yet detailed graph view of what is running, where the peaks are, and it updates its metrics every 90 seconds.
It offers a detailed line graph for each respective service from AWS, that covers latency, throughput, lag response, query response times, and the list goes on. With a simplified dashboard, you can grab a summary of each service and quickly report rather or not a service is “green” or dead on arrival.
I am looking forward to more of these web monitoring services to crop up, since this entire cloud ride is in it’s infancy, and more services may come about to support this ever evolving cloud as Amazon becomes a shadow on the number of services that may crop up.
Link: CloudStatus (Beta)
