are at least partially responsible for the continuous operation of a business critical production rails app * If you have ZERO monitoring of the site’s uptime - meaning your customers or boss would be the one to tell you that the homepage was down - put your hand down * If your monitoring solution runs on your server itself - monit or god, for example - put your hand down * If your external monitoring solution only hits one URL on the site, put your hand down Some sites are monitored very closely, but I’ve found that in most cases, the monitoring of many production apps is rather slim. I generally evaluate monitoring solutions on two axes: