This has been my main project for months - I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks.
The experience of adding monitoring with a New Relic plugin should be MUCH better than with any other monitoring approach.
Could you tell me what differs in your solution, and why it is better? And why you didn't choose Graphite/Carbon or statsd?
The issue is that we are now a lot of people that tries to solve the same kind of problems. Everyone seems to be writing collectors that reports information to backends.
On top of my head I can name:
http://opensource.brightcove.com/project/diamond/ http://collectl.sourceforge.net/ http://collectd.org/
They all implement some kind of RRD or Graphite service hooks. It would be nice if all I should do to upgrade was to point my existing collectd collectors to NewRelic or Scout and be good to go.
Instead, I now have to reconfigure my whole stack, install their agent, add their plugins for my software, make sure things are working and then switch.
I am not advocating that everyone should use Graphite, I am just advocating that we should have some consistency between these systems, so we can use the same collectors no matter what the backend is.
I had a feeling that Graphite+Statsd was where the community was heading given that both Etsy and Github are using that.