Amon - server monitoring, simplified logging and error tracking for web apps

Why is the trend today towards installations like this?<p>curl install.amon.cx | bash<p>I'm looking at you, rvm, npm et al. Yeah, I'd just love you to poop files randomly into my filesystem, with no tracking, and a completely non-standard uninstall process (if I'm lucky enough to have one at all).<p>We evolved package management for a reason - I know it's a pain to have to make a .deb, a .rpm and a .tar.gz - but is it really that much more work than making an entirely custom install script?

I commend you for making something that isn't SaaS -- it seems to be rare to have one-off payments now, so this makes it more attractive.<p>Also, it seems that your demo (<a href="http://live.amon.cx:2464/" rel="nofollow">http://live.amon.cx:2464/</a>) is down, which is a pity as I'd obviously like to try it before installing.<p>EDIT: And local monitoring is a big plus, too.

Amon was discussed two months [0] and two weeks [1] ago.<p>[0] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313991" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313991</a> [1] <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555916" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555916</a>

It looks like a great project. Some features I would like to see:<p>* Alerts via SMS (possibly by integrating Twilio / Tropo).<p>* API via zeromq instead of HTTP. Async logging via workers. This could become handy if you log lots of things. It would also prevent logging to become the bottleneck of my applications.

Anyone done a comparison as to why I'd want a simplified tool like this vs. a more extendable tool like Zabbix or Nagios?<p>Yes, I realize that those and this probably don't perfectly overlap.

This seems really interesting and I really like that the data would stay inside my firewall. Any comparisons to New Relic? Looks like ease of installation would be similar (except for setting up Mongo), but that it doesn't collect quite the same amount of data (yet).

Why would I prefer this over a well-configured monit? <a href="http://mmonit.com/monit/" rel="nofollow">http://mmonit.com/monit/</a>

Please change the spelling of "straightfrorward" to "straightforward" on your home page.

It looks like it isn't possible to add multiple user accounts (in the free version). I tried browsing to /create_user myself to add a second account, but I get redirected to the /login page<p>Is that something that comes with the Plus version ?

Besides the fuzzy feeling of helping a open source project with comercial endeavors, how does it compare to services like Server Density, Nagios, Monit, etc?

There's a typo on the Requirements page: <a href="http://amon.cx/plus/requirements/" rel="nofollow">http://amon.cx/plus/requirements/</a><p>Users are instructed to check their python version with `python -v`, but the correct command is `python -V` (uppercase).

Just bought this, it might not be to everyones taste and it seems to be an early version but its exactly what I want..<p>Found a few issues so far and the response time on support has been pretty quick, I hope development keeps up :)

Just wanted to let you know that in Internet Explorer 9 much of your page text is cut off. It seems to be positioned to the left of the browser so much of the text (mostly the code) is cut out.

It looks rather straight forward to add a custom appender for log4j ?

I couldn't find some comparison chart or anything that would tell me what extra features the pro version has.

Looks great. It's a shame your live demo is down though.

Any plans to get Solaris/SunOS support in the future?

Is application logging done via UDP?