Application integration & Middleware

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(…)

YaK and Ansible Collection Integration

In this blog, I will show you how easy it is to use an existing ansible collection with YaK. Ansible Galaxy Ansible Galaxy is a public repository of Ansible roles. For the sake of this demonstration,(…)

Kafka Monitoring in Prometheus

Enabling monitoring on Kafka with Prometheus/Grafana is not more difficult than others exporters I configured in my previous monitoring in Prometheus blogs. Let’s see this together. JMX Exporter vs Kafka Exporter As Kafka is a Java based application, it would(…)

Changing Fusion Middleware repository database

In my previous blog named “Changing Fusion Middleware Forms and Reports repository database“, I explained how to move a Fusion Middleware Forms and Reports repository from one database to a new database where some other repositories already exist. In(…)