The following information will provide you with a great list of Cloud Monitoring How to's and Resources to point you to.

Getting Started

• Cloud Monitoring Getting Started Guide: http://docs.rackspace.com/cm/api/v1.0/cm-getting-started/content/Introduction.html
• Raxmon Getting Started Guide: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/getting-started-with-cloud-monitoring

Client Libraries/Integrations

• Python binding, based upon libcloud as a dependency: https://github.com/racker/rackspace-monitoring

• Command line tool called “Raxmon”, based upon rackspace-monitoring: https://github.com/racker/rackspace-monitoring-cli

• Ruby bindings, based on fog: https://github.com/racker/rackspace-monitoring-rb

• Chef Cookbook, using the Fog based bindings: https://github.com/racker/cookbook-cloudmonitoring

Resources

• API Developer Guide: http://docs.rackspace.com/cm/api/v1.0/cm-devguide/content/overview.html
• Release Notes: http://docs.rackspace.com/cm/api/cm-releasenotes-latest/index.html

Open Source

• Information about Dreadnot, our open source deployment tool: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-open-sources-dreadnot/
• Link to the code here: https://github.com/racker/dreadnot

• Node.js Library Serialization and Validation for building API’s: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/node-swiz-node-js-library-for-serializing-deserializing-and-validating-objects-in-rest-apis/
• Node.js Library To Build And Parse XML Documents: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/node-elementtree-node-js-library-to-build-and-parse-xml-documents/

• Node.js Cassandra CQL driver: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-contributes-cassandra-cql-driver-for-node-js/
• Virgo monitoring agent: https://github.com/racker/virgo