What 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 Remote Server Task Execution category of a tech stack.
Runbook is an open source tool with 193 GitHub stars and 54 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Runbook's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Runbook?
Companies
Developers
5 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Runbook.
Runbook Integrations
Docker, Slack, Amazon EC2, Heroku, and DigitalOcean are some of the popular tools that integrate with Runbook. Here's a list of all 15 tools that integrate with Runbook.
Runbook's 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 call
- Integrated with the tools you use today: Heroku, Salt, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, Logentries
Runbook Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Runbook?
Rundeck
A self-service operations platform used for support tasks, enterprise job scheduling, deployment, and more.
New Relic
The world’s best software and DevOps teams rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to run New Relic. More than 50% of the Fortune 100 do too.
Kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch. Kibana is a snap to setup and start using. Kibana strives to be easy to get started with, while also being flexible and powerful, just like Elasticsearch.
Grafana
Grafana is a general purpose dashboard and graph composer. It's focused on providing rich ways to visualize time series metrics, mainly though graphs but supports other ways to visualize data through a pluggable panel architecture. It currently has rich support for for Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTSDB. But supports other data sources via plugins.
Sentry
Sentry’s Application Monitoring platform helps developers see performance issues, fix errors faster, and optimize their code health.
