Librato alerts on your mobile devices

<p>Operations folks at Etsy said it best with &#8220;<a href="http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/">measure anything, measure everything</a>&#8221;. Metric (aka time series) data collection, visualization, and alerting are essential operations management capabilities. We need to be able to track not only systems metrics such as CPU and memory utilization, but also (even more so) application and business metrics such as response times, number of transactions, etc.</p><p><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/93f37247ed427a6cd2f54f244b7dd1a0/tumblr_inline_mu3fc7kvf71soq1dj.png"/></p><p><br/><a href="https://metrics.librato.com/" target="_blank">Librato Metrics</a>is a cloud based service just for that. Librato makes it easy to collect, store and visualize time series data.</p><p><strong>Collect</strong>: They provide a simple web API (HTTP/JSON), as well as language bindings and integration with collecting agents such as statsd and collectd to collect data.</p><p><strong>Store</strong>: Librato stores all the data, takes care of roll-ups, and scales as needed.</p><p><strong>Visualize</strong>: Metric data can be visualized as individual metrics, can be correlated with other metrics, organized in dashboards, etc. Charts update in real-time to reflect the latest values for the metrics. You can also embed the charts on your own apps using the JavaScript SDK.</p><p><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/6f3641baf34c0f2c1060fe342cca79b1/tumblr_inline_mu3fcwlPwn1soq1dj.png"/></p><p>Librato provides alerting capabilities as well. You can define thresholds for metrics, and triggers alerts when thresholds are exceeded. <strong>We&#8217;re happy to announce that in collaboration with folks in Librato, we&#8217;ve integrated OpsGenie with Librato</strong>. Using OpsGenie, Librato users can now create alerts in OpsGenie, manage alert lifecycle (acknowledge, take/assign ownership, close, etc.) and receive notifications on their mobile devices using iPhone/Android push notifications, SMS, and phone calls. <a href="http://support.opsgenie.com/customer/portal/articles/868562-librato-integration">OpsGenie Librato integration document</a>describes the configuration.</p><p>It is now easier than ever to track key metrics and get notifications on your mobile devices. Librato provides a free trial just as OpsGenie, so if you&#8217;d like to track some key metrics, give it a try.</p>