Prometheus

How to keep your Prometheus ecosystem secure

Prometheus is a popular open-source monitoring system that helps track and alert for various applications. However, regarding security, there are some essential things to consider. Prometheus server, for instance, does not provide authentication or TLS encryption out of the box,(…)

Apache Tomcat Monitoring in Prometheus

To monitor Apache Tomcat, the most convenient solution is to use JMX Exporter provided by Prometheus git repository. Enable JMX Remote To enable JMX Remote, I will simply add the following line(…)

Nginx Monitoring in Prometheus

Following my two previous blogs about monitoring, I will now focus on Nginx. Nginx Inc provides an exporter with it’s code: https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-prometheus-exporter As Nginx cannot run a web application as WebLogic or(…)

WebLogic Monitoring in Prometheus

In this blog, I will explain how to enable WebLogic monitoring in Prometheus as I did for WildFly in my previous blog. WebLogic Monitoring Exporter Oracle is providing, as open source, a(…)

High Availability and Hierarchical Federation with Prometheus

Learn about Prometheus and how to setup high availability and federation.

WildFly monitoring in Prometheus

In this blog, we will see how easy it is to add a WildFly server into a Prometheus setup. Metrics Fortunately, WildFly comes with a integrated metrics subsystem which is included in all out-of-the-box profiles. In the management console, we(…)

Monitoring – first steps with Prometheus

Monitoring is a crucial element of DevOps automation that has to be proactive, meaning it must find ways to improve applications quality before bugs appear. Therefore, we have to quickly and easily understand what is happening in our infrastructure,(…)