Website Vital Signs

Here's a list I'm keeping of website Vital Signs I want to implement in my Ruby Website Telemetry application:

Database
-- Primary / Backup / Reporting Database Availability
-- Queries per Second
-- Average Query Time
-- Sort Buffer Size
-- Query Cache Hit Ratio
-- Thread Pool
-- InnoDB Buffer Pool size / free
-- IO threads
-- Log Size

OS
-- CPU Usage
-- Available RAM
-- Available Disk Space

Apache / Mongrel
-- Total Users
-- Total vs Available instances
-- Request Queue Length
-- Availability of All Expected Ports
-- Log Growth

Ruby / Rails
- MySQL availability
- Benchmarking
- Session Stability

Availability
- Web Service Availability
- Site Availability (using external proxy?)
- email availability?
- feed availability

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