Monitoring modern applications has become a double-edged sword. While it's absolutely critical for maintaining reliable services, the complexity of traditional monitoring solutions often creates more problems than they solve. Teams spend weeks configuring tools, learning new interfaces, and maintaining monitoring infrastructure—time that could be better spent building features and improving their applications.
That's why we built Convox's integrated metrics and alerting suite: to give you enterprise-grade monitoring without the enterprise-grade headaches.
Today's cloud-native applications present unique monitoring challenges that traditional tools weren't designed to handle:
Distributed Complexity: Modern applications span multiple containers, services, and environments. Each component needs monitoring, but correlating data across these distributed systems becomes exponentially complex.
Dynamic Infrastructure: Auto-scaling environments mean your monitoring targets are constantly changing. Traditional monitoring solutions struggle to keep up with this dynamism.
Tool Proliferation: A typical monitoring stack might include Prometheus for metrics, Grafana for visualization, AlertManager for notifications, plus various agents and exporters. Each tool requires configuration, maintenance, and expertise.
Hidden Costs: Beyond licensing fees, the real cost of monitoring lies in the engineering time required to set up, maintain, and operate these systems. Teams often underestimate these operational overhead costs.
The result? Many teams either over-engineer their monitoring (creating maintenance burdens) or under-monitor their applications (risking outages and performance issues).
Convox Monitoring & Alerting offers automatic metrics collection and alerting capabilities that give you comprehensive visibility into your applications and infrastructure. Built directly into the Convox platform, monitoring requires no additional tools or complex configuration.
Here's how we've eliminated the traditional monitoring pain points:
Metrics collection is enabled at the rack level through the Rack Settings page. Simply toggle the "Enable Metrics Agent" switch, wait approximately 2 minutes for agents to install and begin collecting data, and you're done.
Once enabled, the Metrics Agent automatically installs into your rack and begins collecting performance data from all running services, creating default panels that provide immediate visibility into your infrastructure.
See It In Action
Watch how easy it is to enable monitoring and create dashboards in under 2 minutes.
Rather than forcing you to build dashboards from scratch, Convox provides three levels of intelligent monitoring:
Rack Dashboards: Get a comprehensive overview of your entire infrastructure with metrics like Rack CPU usage, memory consumption, network I/O patterns, and error rates.
App Dashboards: Focus on specific application performance and health metrics tailored to individual applications.
Service Dashboards: Deep-dive into individual service metrics for detailed troubleshooting and optimization.
Simply select "Create Smart Dashboard" and choose your scope—Convox automatically generates a tailored dashboard with the most relevant metrics for that level without any manual configuration.
When you need to track application-specific metrics, Convox offers two approaches: Smart Queries provide pre-configured queries that make metric selection intuitive, while Custom PromQL gives you full access to collected metrics for advanced monitoring needs.
Set up intelligent alerts to be notified when your applications exceed defined thresholds. Configure warning and critical severity levels, set conditions based on your application's normal operating ranges, and define how long conditions must persist before triggering. Add clear summaries and descriptions for faster incident response.
Receive alerts where your team already works through Slack for instant team notifications, Discord for development-focused communication, with PagerDuty integration coming soon.
The difference between traditional monitoring and Convox's integrated approach isn't just philosophical—it's measurable:
Convox automatically tracks the metrics that matter most for cloud applications, including CPU utilization across your rack, memory consumption patterns, network throughput and activity, pod counts and health status, service-specific performance data, build and deployment success rates, and resource scaling events.
Enabling monitoring for your Convox applications takes just minutes:
To get the most from Convox monitoring:
Monitoring shouldn't require a dedicated platform team or force you to become an expert in multiple tools. With Convox's integrated approach, you get enterprise-grade visibility with developer-grade simplicity.
Whether you're running a single application or managing complex microservices architectures, monitoring becomes as simple as toggling a switch. No agents to deploy, no dashboards to build from scratch, no specialized expertise required—just the insights you need to keep your applications running smoothly.
Ready to experience effortless monitoring? The future of application observability is being built today, and the right monitoring platform can make all the difference in how quickly you can detect issues and maintain reliable services.
Get Started Free with monitoring that works out-of-the-box, or contact our team to discuss your specific monitoring and alerting requirements.
