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Neptune.io vs Runbook: What are the differences?
Developers describe Neptune.io as "Incident Response Automation for DevOps". 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. On the other hand, Runbook is detailed as "Infrastructure Monitoring with Automated Remediation". 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!.
Neptune.io and Runbook can be primarily classified as "Remote Server Task Execution" tools.
Some of the features offered by Neptune.io are:
- Automatically remediate simple alerts
- Gather diagnostics for complex alerts
- Seamless integration with monitoring and alerting tools
On the other hand, Runbook provides the following 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 call
- Integrated with the tools you use today: Heroku, Salt, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, Logentries
Runbook is an open source tool with 193 GitHub stars and 55 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Runbook's open source repository on GitHub.
