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Metrics Driven Development

One of my main take aways from GOTO Copenhagen this year was the importance of using metrics to monitor what our applications are doing, how they are...

0 replies - 6678 views - 07/29/12 by Ben Wootton in Articles

Monitoring Sucks. But Monitoring as Testing Sucks A LOT More

At Devopsdays I listened to a lot of smart people saying smart things. And to some people saying things that sounded smart, but really weren’t. It was...

0 replies - 13299 views - 07/16/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

The Challenge of Small Ops: Part 2 - Monitoring

So your building or have built a web service, you’ve got a lot of challenges a head. You’ve got to scale software and keep customers happy. Not...

0 replies - 3504 views - 07/10/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles

Apache Camel Monitoring

I've seen a lot of discussion about how to monitor Camel based applications.  Most people are looking for the following features: ability to view services...

0 replies - 4916 views - 06/26/12 by Ben O' Day in Articles

Monitoring Might Suck Less with AssimMon

Yeah, I know Monitoring Sucks, but it can be pretty neat as well. It’s a hard problem, so there are all kinds of interesting approaches to it. A new...

1 replies - 4104 views - 06/01/12 by Aaron Nichols in Articles

6 Types of Monitoring

When you manage and develop infrastructure, you'll work with tests and monitoring solutions that ensure the quality of your end product (code or...

0 replies - 10402 views - 05/04/12 by Ranjib Dey in Articles

Monitor Your Development Infrastructure as if It Were Business Critical

A development team’s infrastructure - development and QA environments, CI servers, SCM servers, etc. - are indisputably business critical, but rarely...

0 replies - 6619 views - 04/30/12 by Kief Morris in Articles

6 Command Line Tools for Linux Performance Monitoring

So you need to monitor a Linux system for performance metrics... CPU, Memory, Network, Disk, etc. Here are 6 of my favorite command line tools for...

12 replies - 19918 views - 04/23/12 by Corey Goldberg in Articles

Apache Solr Test Suite - Getting Optimal Response Times

In this article we will try to present the importance of understanding the data in pursuit of optimal response times for a search engine. By comprehending...

0 replies - 4609 views - 04/11/12 by Dino Oglic in Articles

#monitoringsucks – But it Doesn’t Have to...

On May 26, 2011, John Vincent, aka @lusis, started a conversation with a simple tweet that led to an hour-plus chat on IRC freenode between some very smart...

0 replies - 4121 views - 04/03/12 by Joe Miller in Articles

Poll: How Do We Handle Our Application Environments?

Application performance monitoring and quick bug fixing has been a major topic as of late, so I've created a poll that will give us all some interesting...

0 replies - 5967 views - 03/30/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

GlassFish App Server Monitoring Data Persistence With "LightFish"

Ever wanted an easy tool for persisting your App Server's monitoring data with no external dependencies.  Well if you use GlassFish you're in luck, because...

0 replies - 4389 views - 03/15/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

The 3 Basic Tenets of Monitoring

This week, I was seeing a drop in average back-end performance at work, we had an average drop in page load performance from ~250ms to around 500ms. This...

0 replies - 6734 views - 03/13/12 by Geoffrey Papilion in Articles

Logstash and ElasticSearch

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." Niels Bohr When I setup Logstash for the very first time I...

1 replies - 5559 views - 02/27/12 by Kris Buytaert in Articles

Getting started with the Sensu monitoring framework

I’m excited about Sensu, a new open source monitoring framework, and I’d like to help others get started with it as well. So, after observing the...

1 replies - 8263 views - 02/04/12 by Joe Miller in Articles