Monitoring Distributed System Health with Ruby, Splunk, and Honeybadger

Splunk is an amazing tool.

The amount of data I can jam into logs can give massive, real time insight into everything. When engineers start logging performance information as well as conversion info, you can see the impact that an underperforming system has on user behavior. If you can prove that performance matters, or that your missing a critical threshold with it, the arguments between fixes and features tend to solve themselves.