Over drinks this evening Kohsuke pointed out that he never saw a blog post about PagerDuty.
If you’ve never worked in a sysadmin role or in any other position that would require an on-call rotation, then you may have never seen PagerDuty.
In essence the service provides a great series of integration points with Pingdom or Nagios for handling monitoring. As an infrastructure guy (part time), I can honestly say it’s a great tool and I’m grateful to PagerDuty for supporting Jenkins with our own account to help manage project infrastructure.
A couple weekends ago I finished setting up Nagios (read-only username/password: jenkins/jenkins) for critical project services which by itself is a good step forward. Combine that with PagerDuty’s Nagios integration and a solid on-call rotation, and I’m more confident than I’ve ever been that Kohsuke or myself could actually take a vacation!
Check them out, and be sure to thank them on Twitter at @PagerDuty for supporting Jenkins!
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R. Tyler Croy
R. Tyler Croy has been part of the Jenkins project for the past seven years. While avoiding contributing any Java code, Tyler is involved in many of the other aspects of the project which keep it running, such as this website, infrastructure, governance, etc. |