StackStorm is an open source automation platform that allows you to integrate and automate workflows across your infrastructure. Monitoring StackStorm and its dependencies, such as MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and system metrics, is crucial for ensuring its availability, performance, and reliability. In this blog post, we'll explore how to monitor StackStorm using Prometheus and Grafana, along with exporters for various components, such as:

Ever wanted to host your own system to track important metrics over time?

We've recently demonstrated how to use a GitHub Action workflow to deploy an application to an AWS EC2 instance. While this is an excellent starting point, it does not provide the ability to store non-ephemeral data.

This Github action contains a lot of features, and in this blog, we’ll show you how to tweak it to make use of the possibility of deploying your application to the root domain by using an existing domain in your AWS account.

In this series, we will show you how to create a deployment (and destroy it) in the same repo. That way, you can have a working deployment set up for the PR and destroyed once it’s ready to merge.

Let's get started!