Automation Engine

The RightScale automation engine provides powerful tools to make cloud resources efficient, elastic, and highly available. Keep tabs on your resources with granular Server and Application Monitoring. View entire systems of hundreds of servers with Cluster Monitoring. Link monitors to Alerts and Escalations that notify you of issues and automatically take action. Scale resources up and down according to your needs with Auto-Scaling Arrays. Stand up entire architectures using one-click Macros. Perform Application and Database Automation with powerful tools such as tags and our customizable library of scripts.

Server and Application Monitoring

Keep tabs on your environment’s health with more than 80 built-in server, volume, database, and application monitors. Create custom views on the Dashboard with QuickMonitoring and Widgets. Optimize and troubleshoot with monitoring data that persists for up to two years. Add custom plug-ins or write your own and graph them in the dashboard.

Cluster Monitoring

For large deployments, view many servers at a glance with cluster monitoring and heat maps.

Alerts and Escalations

Assign alerts to any pre-built or custom metric. Escalate alerts based on your preferences. Trigger automated scaling, operational scripts, and notifications. Create self-healing servers and deployments.

Auto-Scaling Arrays

Scale your cloud resources elastically with auto-scaling arrays. Arrays scale collections of servers up and down based on completely customizable conditions: monitors, alerts, batch-processing queues, or operational scripts. RightScale Auto-Scaling is far more than simply auto-launching servers. Because the entire process of configuring a server is automated, servers are launched in context, making them fully-functional members of your application, including connecting into back-end databases and front-end load balanced rotations.

Macros

Macros make it easy to reproduce entire deployments. Create macros from scratch or snapshot existing deployments, arrays, and server configurations as editable JavaScript. Easily save, edit, and reproduce cloud assets with all attributes preserved. Quickly stand up identical development, test, and production environments.

Application and Database Automation

Run scripts on tagged groups of servers or deployments to perform regular updates, patches, testing, code checkout, application restarts, data migration, and more. Automate backups, health checks, failover, and recovery using an extensive library of scripts and tested architectures. Respond to fluctuations in demand, failure of infrastructure, and changing application requirements in an automated, testable, pre-planned manner.

Governance Controls