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Amon - self-hosted server and web app monitoring toolkit

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I think the pricing scheme is way too clumsy. The Amon and Amon Plus seem to map to two different kinds of web apps: hobby, and mission critical. There's a huge gap between the two plans. You're basically ignoring the users between the two levels by insisting that anyone who needs more than basic service get the super deluxe model.

The pricing scheme drastically needs a change. The free level is fine, but there needs to be at least onepaid intermediate levels: 2 apps, with features between free and plus. Why? If a developer is doing 1 hobby web app and wants to take it to the next level, a 2-app plan will both provide support for their current app and allow breathing room in case they want to go for a second.

As a web app developer myself, I would not pay for the Amon Plus plan. I have 1 web app running on AppFog. I don't need to pay for unlimited servers and unlimited apps. I would pay for basic support, but paid basic support is not available in the two tiers offered.

There is a big difference between Amon Plus and services like AppFog. Amon Plus is self-hosted and you have to pay $24.95 once and then you own it forever. There are no monthly fees and no restrictions.

Eh, I'm an idiot. I was thinking so much about the pricing scheme I forgot it's a one-time buy, not a service.

Dude it's a $25 one time payment. You could have made that in the time you took to complain about that price. Plus, Amon has built in exception tracking, which is one less service to pay for versus using something like Airbrake or Exceptional.

Bless you for making an installable product and not yet another pay-us-a-fiver-a-month service. If Mint's success is of any indication, there is a very substantial demand for productized analytics software.

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I said this when it first came out, I'm not going to curl down and run an arbitrary script from the web. Package it like everyone else does.

I totally agree. They looked professional until i saw this "curl install.amon.cx | bash"

Are they crazy? What if they loose this domain for some reason, and somebody puts different code there.

Demo (http://demo-plus.amon.cx/) seems to be down. No refunds?! What would Joel say?

Sorry about that. There seems to be some DNS problem. The demo is at http://54.247.98.35/

Invalid login is all it's saying for me

It's fixed now.

try this http://live.amon.cx/

The install command is failing on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, I get the following error:

tar: Unrecognized archive format

seems like a regression: https://github.com/martinrusev/amon/issues/27

[edit] Update: Manual installation was successful, but nothing runs on localhost:2464

"Amon supports only Rails 3." (http://amon.cx/guide/clients/ruby)

Is that the Ruby client Ramon or Amon itself?

Sorry. It should be more clear. The Ruby client Ramon supports Rails 3

How does it compares to something like New Relic?

Amon Plus is great if you need quick & simple server/app monitoring. I've been using it for several months and have gotten steady metrics from the alerting, logging and graphs - all of which was fairly easy to set up. The creator is pretty quick to respond to any questions about the app, and is continually improving the project.

With that said, if you're looking for deep insight for performance, metrics, etc - then I'd still have to say that New Relic would be your best bet.

you know, newrelic actually does the same thing for free. (server monitoring is free w/ newrelic)

Just fyi, this is using MonoDB.

Power to the worms. ;)

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