Alerting

Watching your infrastructure 24x7.

Rest easy with Scout

Did a process fail in the middle of the night? CPU load suddenly spike to a dangerous level? Server die? Don't worry — Scout will alert you.

Scout watches over your data and analyzes it every minute for peaks and plateaus you specify. If a threshold is broken (or if data is trending too quickly), Scout will let you know via email, SMS, or RSS.

Sophisticated Trending

Going beyond simple threshold alerts, Scout also watches for significant trends in your data. For example, did the amount of free disk space go down dramatically in the last hour? Did the number of slow DB queries increase significantly relative to last week?

Scout's trend triggers will catch these notable changes before they turn into full-fledged problems. The ability to watch for relative changes in addition to absolute thresholds is a powerful tool in your toolbox.

Alerts built for humans

Scout creates highly readable, human-friendly alerts that don't require your system administrator's technical translation abilities.