Metrics by Librato

The need to Measure Everything

If you’re a SaaS or PaaS provider, making sure that you deliver the Quality of Service that your users expect is probably your highest priority. This means that you rely on continuously monitoring all aspects of your operation that can alert you to unusual events, and help you find and fix the root cause of Quality of Service degradations. User complaints cannot be the first sign of trouble, and there is no time to hunt for data that have not already been collected.

Proliferation of tools

This is why “Measure Everything” is the new principle by which SaaS and PaaS clouds are being managed, causing many devops and operations teams to use multiple open source, commercial and environment-specific custom tools to monitor their operation. Since each tool comes with its own user interface, alerting mechanism and set-up requirements, this adds to their workload, is expensive and -most importantly- makes it difficult to correlate data collected by different tools for rapid root cause analysis.

Metrics, a platform for managing your monitoring data

Wouldn’t it be nice if, just as there exist standard Database Management platforms, there would be Time-series Data Management platforms that can store, visualize, correlate and act on all of your monitored data in a uniform manner?

Wouldn’t it be nice if such platforms would be delivered as a service and could also be used by SaaS and PaaS providers to allow their users to monitor and manage the use of their services?

Librato Metrics is such a platform, built from the ground up with an “API first” approach, allowing customers and partners to easily send it any time-series data.

By bringing all of your monitoring data together in a unified hosted environment, Metrics enables you to detect signs of problems early, minimize their impact through automated actions, and quickly find and fix their root cause.

Flexible and affordable

Flexible, affordable and simple are the motto’s we’ve used in developing a business model for Metrics that makes it easy to adopt and bring “measure everything” within reach of both large and small organizations. We charge a modest amount per measurement, provide a 30-day free trial, and charge you monthly for the measurements you’ve sent us.

Ease of Use

Our users spend a significant part of their time monitoring and managing their operations. We believe that providing them with tools that are visually pleasing and intuitive in their use not only contributes to the quality of our user’s working life but also effectiveness with which they can do their jobs.

Ecosystem

To make it easy to adopt Metrics, we’re making connectors for a variety of popular monitoring tools available free of charge. To help build a broad collection of useful collectors and connectors to existing tools we’re building a community and ecosystem where Metrics users and tool developers can contribute.

You can find more detailed information on our website.