Application integration & Middleware

Migrating Monitoring Data from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics

Now that we know the advantages of VictoriaMetrics over Prometheus (see my previous blog post), we have to find a way to migrate data between the two. If you have the default retention set in Prometheus(…)

JBoss EAP vs. WildFly : What’s the difference?

I heard the following question a lot, what is the difference between JBoss EAP and Widfly? It is a very good question which deserves a detailed answer, that's what I will try to do throw this article!(…)

Prometheus vs VictoriaMetrics

As I went through many monitoring tools recently, I found that Prometheus is a de facto standard. At least from the way it is working. It is even a so strong standard that other Time Series Database (TSDB), like(…)

SNMP Monitoring with Prometheus

It is not always possible to install an exporter on the server or equipment you must monitor, either because you don’t administrate that server, or it cannot run an exporter (ie. device with limited resources). For that purpose, two exporters(…)

WildFly monitoring in Zabbix

Zabbix is a fully featured open-source monitoring solution. I wanted to evaluate how easy it is to monitor an application server like WildFly. Server Installation First component to install is the server which also requires a(…)

Monitoring Short Living Processes with Prometheus

With the way Prometheus is gathering metrics, pull, it is not possible to get metrics from short living processes like batch jobs as: batch jobs can be shorter than scrap_interval batch timings and scrap_interval are not aligned In this blog,(…)

Predict the Future with Prometheus

As I am focusing on monitoring subject, I was wondering if it is possible to set alarm based on prediction instead of simple thresholds. Dynatrace has predictive anomaly detection feature, but in this blog, I want to test if on-premises(…)

Grail and Dynatrace Query Language

In my last dynatrace blog, I presented how to go from logs to dashboard. This could look like a complex process for such a simple task. Moreover, this does not work on historical data as metric(…)

WildFly: From Log to Dashboard with dynatrace

In my previous dynatrace blog, I explained how to deploy OneAgent on a Virtual Machine which hosts WildFly. In this one, I will tell you: How to enable log centralization Extract an attribute from log Convert(…)

dynatrace First Steps

In this blog, I will tell you how I setup my first agent, on a YaK deployed server. Of course, I will use YaK to deploy it. What is dynatrace? dynatrace is an observability platform which covers from infrastructure monitoring(…)