[Baylisa] tomcat and other monitoring?

[Brendon Baumgartner]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Baylisa [mailto:baylisa-bounces at baylisa.org] On Behalf Of Holt Sorenson
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 13:55
To: Ray Wong
Cc: baylisa at baylisa.org
Subject: Re: [Baylisa] tomcat and other monitoring?

ohhai, Ray!

Fancing meeting you here. :P

Graphite/Ganglia are popular these days for monitoring/graphing:
http://graphite.wikidot.com/
http://neopatel.blogspot.com/2011/04/logging-to-graphite-monitoring-tool.html

http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
http://blog.sflow.com/2011/12/using-ganglia-to-monitor-java-virtual.html

JMX glue for jvm (Tomcat too) -> Ganglia/Graphite:
https://github.com/lookfirst/jmxtrans/wiki

HTH

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:13:37PM -0700, Ray Wong wrote:
>Hey all, not like there's a lot of list traffic/discussions these days, 
>but iirc that's actually one of the accepted uses for the list, so I 
>thought I'd try it out again...
>
>Just wondering if other folks are still having to brew up 
>monitoring/graphing solutions. detecting outages and failures seems a 
>given, but there doesn't seem to be much going on WRT graphing trends 
>and such... In the case of monitoring tomcat, I found a lone thread on 
>the cacti forums, which generate some vaguely useful graphs, but the 
>solution is all wrapped up in a rather obfuscating XML-template system 
>that doesn't seem to lend itself well to certain customizations such as 
>running multiple instances, etc. Anyone found a better solution, or 
>figure out enough jmxproxy to come up with more modular, basic scripts 
>to create something a little more flexible and extensible? There seem 
>to be newer graphing options (graphite, carbon, etc), but doesn't seem 
>to be much in the way of actually talking to data sources still.
>
>Anyone? Seems like we all used to deal with a lot of this as sysadmins, 
>and maybe my googlefu is not strong, but seems like most of the efforts 
>are all years out of date now.

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Holt Sorenson
hso at nosneros.net
www.nosneros.net/hso
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