Awesome BEAM Monitoring

The curated list of tools for monitoring, instrumenting, and tracing applications that run on BEAM. Inspired by many of such lists over the GitHub.

Blog posts

• Logs and Metrics and Graphs, Oh My!
• Operable software by @ferd

Logging

• lager - popular logging framework with broad features set
• logger - OTP 21+ built-in pluggable logger module
• Logger - Elixir's built-in pluggable logger module that in recent Elixir versions also synchronises with Erlang's logger module

Metrics

• Elixometer - thin Elixir wrapper over Exometer
• Exometer - Erlang instrumentation package
• Fluxter - InfluxDB writer for Elixir
• Folsom - expose Erlang events as metrics
• metrics - generic interface to to a different metrics systems in Erlang
• Prometheus - Prometheus integration for Erlang
• Statix - fast and reliable Elixir client for StatsD-compatible servers with some DogStatsD extensions (namely tags)
• Telemetry.Poller - periodically gather measurements and publish them as Telemetry events
• Telemetry - dynamic dispatcher for Erlang metrics and instrumentations
• vmstats - tiny Erlang app to generate information on the Erlang VM

Tracing

• AppSignal - AppSignal Elixir integration package for gathering metrics, errors, and traces
• New Relic - New Relic's Elixir agent supports metrics, errors and distributed tracing
• OpenCenus - implementation of Google's OpenCensus.io tracing and monitoring with broad range of integrations:
  • Absinthe
  • DataDog APM & DogStatsD
  • Elixir
  • Elli
  • Google Reporter
  • Honeycomb
  • InfluxDB
  • Jaeger
  • Plug
  • Prometheus
  • Telemetry
• Otter - OpenTracing integration library for Erlang
• Spandex - tracing library for Elixir which supports DataDog APM. Integrations:
  • Ecto
  • Phoenix
• tracelog - logging handler that can transform structured logs into distributed tracing spans (for now supports only OpenCensus backend library)

Errors logging

• Aibrakex - Elixir client for Airbrake
• Bugsnag - Elixir interface to Bugsnag API
• Rollbar - exception tracking and logging from Elixir to Rollbar
• Sentry - official Elixir SDK for Sentry.io

License

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