Application integration & Middleware

Apache httpd Tuning and Monitoring with Zabbix

There is no tuning possible without a proper monitoring in place to measure the impact of any changes. Thus, before trying to tune an Apache httpd server, I will explain how to monitor it with Zabbix. Setup Zabbix Monitoring Apache(…)

Zabbix Web Monitoring

Zabbix allows to create complex web monitoring scenario and gather metrics about it. In this blog post, we will see how to assess that we are able to login to M-Files web application and, to not(…)

How to Improve your JMeter Load Testing?

In my previous blog post, I presented you how to create a load testing scenario based on a recorder. While working on it, I faced small problems that required few fixes which were very repetitive (and(…)

Load Test M-Files Server with JMeter

Creating load test scenario on a web application might look easy: Record a scenario Replay it In practice, it is much more complex than that when you want to manage variables elements like usernames, session IDs, and, in case of(…)

Monitor M-Files with Zabbix

So far, for Zabbix monitoring, I only covered Linux based servers. We can put aside MS-SQL which was monitored via ODBC, thus without any Zabbix agent involved. In this blog post, I will explain you how(…)

Apache Tomcat Monitoring in Prometheus without JMX

In a previous blog post, I explained how to monitor Apache Tomcat with Prometheus with help of JMX exporter. It is not always desirable to use JMX as it requires: An additional service setup (which runs(…)

Zabbix in the Middle of Prometheus and Grafana

In this blog post, I will show you how to gather metrics from a OpenTelemetry interface from a Zabbix server and how to display Zabbix data in Grafana. Why Should I do that? First, you might wonder why should you(…)

HowTo – Create a quick Documentum rendition report

When working with any ECM solution, you will have to manage a rendition software. This is used to transform the native documents from most formats (docx, pptx, xlsx, txt, jpeg, png, svg, etc.) into another format (pdf, png, etc.). The(…)

JMeter Remote Testing

A typical web application architecture with a load balancer, two application servers and a database looks like this: If you run a JMeter, or any load test tool, from one unique server or workstation, the load balancer will most likely(…)

JMeter Debugging

Writing an Apache JMeter scenario is not an easy task. Debugging a scenario is even harder. One might think that JMeter is simply recording some browser actions and that’s it, and you are good to go for a load test.