Runbook
Benjamin Cane
Feb 14, 2015
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CommentsWhat is Runbook?
Runbook is a SaaS application that monitors your servers and performs automated tasks when your monitors fails. Use Runbook to automatically recover from application crashes and unexpected failure without interrupting your service or your well earned sleep!
Runbook is a tool in the Task Scheduling category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Monitors are used to check the status of your environment. They can be webhooks that call to the Runbook RESTful API, they can be Datadog alerts, they can be ping requests. Or, you can setup our TCP custom port to validate connectivity.Reactions are automated tasks that are called when Monitors fail. It can be anything from starting or restarting servers on AWS, Digital Ocean, or elsewhere, to running a custom script or executing a command. You know, all the first things you try when you get a 4am wake-up callIntegrated with the tools you use today: Heroku, Salt, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, Logentries
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Runbook Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Runbook?
StackStorm
StackStorm is a platform for integration and automation across services and tools. It ties together your existing infrastructure and application environment so you can more easily automate that environment -- with a particular focus on taking actions in response to events.
Neptune.io
Neptune.io is a SaaS platform to automate your incident response. It integrates with your monitoring and alerting tools like NewRelic, Nagios, Pagerduty, CloudWatch etc. and lets you automate the remediation easily and much more.
Runops
Secure access to the Cloud with a single CLI. You run a SQL query and it goes to Runops instead of the database. We get peer reviews in Slack, run it, and remove sensitive data from results.
