The application instances of Engine Yard environments can be horizontally scaled automatically based on certain criteria, with the number of instances running under the environment increased or decrea...
Note: The stack referred to in this article is no longer maintained and this article is kept purely for reference. The engineyard gem provides a command-line interface (CLI) to perform tasks such as d...
Note: This article supersedes our now legacy SendGrid Add-on and should be used as the method to integrate SendGrid into your application. This method applies to our stable-v5 stack and higher, if you...
Note: This article is targeted at BYOC customers who manager their own AWS account. Customers with Engine Yard provided AWS accounts should contact support regarding firewall changes. Various Engine Y...
Passenger workers are monitored for excessive memory consumption and are killed if they are found to exceed the pre-set memory limit. This mechanism, in conjunction with the EngineYard provided Worker...
Note: This article provides details for 4th and 5th generation AWS instances. Stack release stable-v5-3.0.58 introduced a small worker count tweak for 3rd and 4th generation instances. For worker coun...
Introduction The default load balancing tool on Engine Yard Cloud is HAProxy running on the Application Master instance. If advanced load balancing is required Amazon Load Balancers can be deployed, a...
New Relic Server Monitoring While not offered as standard with our New Relic add on, if you have your own New Relic account and would like to make use of the server management option you'll need to in...
About Encrypted EBS Encrypted EBS feature guarantees data at rest encryption. That means anything saved on the volume will be protected automatically as long as it resides on the volume. Risks for Une...
Engine Yard provides Cloud Storage using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This feature allows you to create dedicated Amazon S3 buckets, assign users and configure buckets to be publicly...