At Skimlinks up until about 20 months ago our service monitoring consisted mostly of Icinga/Nagios checks that only ran about every 5 minutes. The Icinga dashboard was displayed on our monitor wall. While readying the release of a new version of SkimWords we thought we needed some monitoring closer to real-time. Since the API was CPU bound and latency sensitive we needed more insight into the state of the system, especially during new releases and traffic spikes.
As Clojure fans, we had recently come across