database monitoring and logging?

[drewda]

Please excuse me if this is not the right place to ask a question; I'm not sure how else to post a question concerning Amon...

I am wondering, does Amon work for database monitoring and logging? In addition to monitoring my Rails app, I would like to evaluate the performance of MySQL db queries (like New Relic does). Is it possible, for example, to use Amon to access things like the MySQL slow query log: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/slow-query-log.html ?

Thank you.

[martinrusev]

Not today. But I am already working on that.
It will not be free however :)

The first thing that I am going to release will be server monitoring for nginx and apache - requests per second, throughput, etc
Then I will add logging for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo and Redis

[drewda]

Thanks for such a quick response, @martinrusev Glad to hear that this is on the roadmap.

What is the pricing scheme you are considering? This project is under GPL, right?

[martinrusev]

Yes its GPL.

The pricing will be quite flexible. I am working on Amon Pro - which will support multiple servers, multiple apps, email notification and some other goodies and it will be 19.95$ before 1.0, after that I am not sure.

And then there will be a small add-on shop with prices between 4.99 and 9.99$. For example if your applications use MySQL - you can buy only the mysql addon and use it with the open source version.

[drewda]

So this GPL repo is for the core of Amon and you will be charging for the add-ons? What will the terms for the pro version and the add-ons be? Do you just pay the cash one time and you get the code for your own use?

Hope you don't mind the questions. I'm sure you haven't figured it all out just yet, but I just ask now because these are the sorts of things that will determine whether or not my company will be interested in getting on the Amon bandwagon or not.

[martinrusev]

You pay once and you get the code for your own use ( excluding reselling of course ).
And then you get free updates for the minor versions - ( 1.0 - 1.9 for example ) and discount if you want to buy the next major version.

[drewda]

Sounds great. Will look forward to seeing your offerings when they're ready. Thanks for all the info.