As announced earlier next monday and tuesday we’re opening up the Inuits offices for everybody working on monitoring problems.
There’s already a good number of people that have confirmed their presence and some people have asked
As for practical detai…
Given that @patrickdebois is working on improving data collection I thought it would be a good idea to describe the setup I currently have hacked together.
(Something which can be used as a starting point to improve stuff, and I have to write document…
If you are hacking on monitoring solutions, and want to talk to your peers solving the problem
Block the monday and tuesday after fosdem in your calendar !
That’s right on february 6 and 7 a bunch of people interrested to fix the problem will be meetin…
I have a need in my development environment to easily create/drop mySQL databases and users. Initially I was gonna implement a simple hacky HTTP GET method but was dissuaded by Ben Black from doing so. He suggested I write a proper RESTful interface. Without further ado I present to you dbrestadmin https://github.com/vvuksan/dbrestadmin It is my [...]
I`m parsing the responses of the Deploying Drupal survey I started a couple of months ago (more on that later)
One of the questions in the survey is “What is devops” , apparently when you ask a zillion people (ok ok, just a large bunch of Tweeps..), …
Last week I was in Boston for my 1st and their 25th Edition of the Large Infrastructure System Administration Conferences
Lisa was pretty much all I expected from it. Old Unix wizards with long hair and white beards, the usual suspects, and a mix o…
This is a post in a series of about Middleware for Stomp users, please read the preceding parts starting at 1 before continuing below. Today changing things around a bit and not so much talking about using Stomp from Ruby but rather how we would monitor ActiveMQ. The ActiveMQ broker has a statistics plugin that [...]
This is an ongoing post in a series of posts about Middlware for Stomp users, please read parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series first before continuing below. Back in Part 2 we wrote a little system to ship metrics from nodes into Graphite via Stomp. This solved the goals of the problem then [...]
Yesterday I showed a detailed example of a Asynchronous system using MOM. Please read part 1 and part 2 of this series first before continuing below. The system shown yesterday was Asynchronous since there is no coupling, no conversation or time constraints. The Producer does not know or care what happens to the messages once [...]
Yesterday I gave a quick intro to the basics of Message Orientated Middleware, today we’ll build something kewl and useful. Graphite is a fantastic statistics as a service for your network package. It can store, graph, slice and dice your time series data in ways that was only imaginable in the dark days of just [...]
