How to monitor and maintain my grails application in live/production environment?

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Published on 2010-02-12T12:22:54Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 22:21 UTC
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It is the first time I have ever launched live a website (with Grails web framework under Amazon EC2 platform and Cloud Foundry) and I realized quickly that I am not ready for monitoring and maintening correctly my application in production mode (fortunately the website is accessible to a very limited number of users) .

The issues I have faced so far are:

Cannot change my views. I need to redeploy my application
I have no monitoring. I don't know who is connected, when do they sign in / sign out...
Redploying my application (upload WAR + deploy) takes at least 30 minutes.
I don't know how to restart my Tomcat server without a redeploy through Cloud Foundry !
...

So, my question is very simple:

What tools (including grails plugins) and methods can you recommend me for taking me out from my current blindness?

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