How to monitor Ruby on Rails application hosted on Azure VM

Question

Hello,

We have a Ruby on Rails application hosted on Azure VM, we are not sure how to monitor the application? Application Insights might not help due to language constraints and container insights is for Kubernetes container based applications. VM Insights can capture OS level info.

Do we need to inject some code in our application in order to monitor it or we can just install LA Agent/ Azure Monitor Agent on the VM and it will take care of both infra and app level monitoring?

Appreciate your insightful response. Thank you!!

Answer 1

Hi,

There is no out of the box functionality to monitor Ruby on Rails application. You will have to build monitoring on your own from the general capabilities for collecting data available in Azure Monitor. You need to assess which ones you can use:

• If your application writes to Windows event logs or or uses performance counters.
• If your application produces text logs.
• If your application produces syslogs.
• Build your own integration inside your application by directly sending data to Log Analytics

Once you have the data being ingested you can create alerts based on it.

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