Ask HN: Best way for monitoring Node.js in production?
6 points| wsieroci | 10 years ago
What do you use to monitor node.js processes in production? Assume that I would like to use nginx as my load balancer and some tool to keep node.js application running, like: forever or pm2. I would like to display data like heap, cpu usage, errors, maybe event loop state in realtime by web user interface remotely.
The best option would be to use some open source tool, but I am also thinking about using some proprietary solution.
What do you think?
Best, Wiktor
[+] [-] sysk|10 years ago|reply
First, you really shouldn't use forever or pm2 in production. May I suggest you use something like Dokku[0] or Deis[1] (if you are planning to scale to more than one server) to deploy your apps?
Dokku is really quick to setup and will save you a lot of time and trouble in the long term. Setup takes only 5 minutes and the learning curve is pretty low (maybe 30-60 minutes to be productive).
NewRelic[2] and DataDog[3] are popular for monitoring though they're not open source. Nagios[4] is open source and also popular.
[0] https://github.com/dokku/dokku
[1] http://deis.io
[2] http://newrelic.com
[3] https://www.datadoghq.com
[4] https://www.nagios.org
[+] [-] stephenr|10 years ago|reply
Phusion Passenger will manage processes (including multiple concurrent processes if required) for a node (or python or ruby) app, and can run under Apache, Nginx or stand-alone.
This doesn't drastically change the infrastructure involved as Docku/Deis/etc would, but provides a much more robust solution.
[+] [-] foxpc|10 years ago|reply