So this post will cover a three free tools that I have used for monitoring my home project Yakutia.
It's a single page app using backbone and spring-mvc.
1. Pingdom
I use this free service to be notified if my webapp goes down. I mainly used this when I had my webapp deployed at my server at home. Now I use digital ocean as cloud solution. Anyhow it is a good tool to monitoring response time, downtime etc.
2. Google analytics
Using this to see realtime data and unique visitors. But since I don't really have any yet it is not used very much now. Although very easy to setup. Just to create a account and follow the instructions (really more or less to include a javascript on the page).
3. New relic
This service seems to be pretty neat. It can monitor memory usage, cpu, errors on the server etc. Seem to be pretty competent for application monitoring. Free to create a account and monitor your server/application.
Ok this was all for now. Hopefully I can write something more code'ish next time.
