Most developers in most IT departments don't even have access to monitoring tools and very little of developer/application importance is monitored beyond server up/down, cpu, and memory usage.
A lot of the most important monitoring I do for my own application is looking at page load times, slow DB queries, custom app metrics, error rates, and looking for specific log statements. Many of these things can't even be done in basic monitoring systems.
Bosun's alerting rules look awesome. But most people don't even know what to monitor, let alone figure out how to write javascript expressions to do so.
A lot of the most important monitoring I do for my own application is looking at page load times, slow DB queries, custom app metrics, error rates, and looking for specific log statements. Many of these things can't even be done in basic monitoring systems.
Bosun's alerting rules look awesome. But most people don't even know what to monitor, let alone figure out how to write javascript expressions to do so.