Sentry

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Use with care!

General Tips

Use pgBouncer and/or enable persistent database connections.
Set up all caches, including Django CACHES (may reduce 50% database transactions).

Monitor Celery queues

#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals

import os
import socket
import time

from sentry.runner import configure


def watch(queues, interval=10):
    from sentry.monitoring.queues import backend

    s = socket.create_connection(("carbon.your.org", 2003))
    while True:
        current = time.time()
        next_run = current + interval
        sizes = backend.bulk_get_sizes(queues)
        metric = "\n".join(["sentry.custom.queues.{}.length {} {}".format(
            q[0].replace(".", "#"), q[1], int(current)) for q in sizes])
        s.sendall(metric)
        time.sleep(next_run - time.time())


def main():
    from django.conf import settings
    queues = [q.name for q in settings.CELERY_QUEUES]
    while True:
        try:
            watch(queues)
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
            break
        except:
            pass


if __name__ == '__main__':
    os.environ.setdefault('SENTRY_CONF', "/etc/sentry")
    configure()
    main()