What is Runbook?
Runbook is a SaaS application that monitors your servers and performs automated tasks when your monitors fails. Use Runbook to automatically recover from application crashes and unexpected failure without interrupting your service or your well earned sleep!
Runbook is a tool in the Remote Server Task Execution category of a tech stack.
Runbook is an open source tool with 193 GitHub stars and 55 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Runbook's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Runbook?
Companies
Developers
5 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Runbook.
Runbook Integrations
Docker, Slack, Amazon EC2, Heroku, and DigitalOcean are some of the popular tools that integrate with Runbook. Here's a list of all 15 tools that integrate with Runbook.
Runbook's Features
- Monitors are used to check the status of your environment. They can be webhooks that call to the Runbook RESTful API, they can be Datadog alerts, they can be ping requests. Or, you can setup our TCP custom port to validate connectivity.
- Reactions are automated tasks that are called when Monitors fail. It can be anything from starting or restarting servers on AWS, Digital Ocean, or elsewhere, to running a custom script or executing a command. You know, all the first things you try when you get a 4am wake-up call
- Integrated with the tools you use today: Heroku, Salt, Rackspace, DigitalOcean, Logentries
Runbook Alternatives & Comparisons
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