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The use of proxy indicators in service management
Proxy indicator is an indirect measure or sign that approximates or represents a phenomenon in the absence of a direct measure or sign. Lets look what this definition means in the context of service management and how we used proxy indicators ourselves in the absence of direct measure.
Filed under: Monitoring Performance
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How to set meaningful goals towards performance and availability requirements
When it comes to setting goals to performance and availability of the software, the outcome is often a set of complex and incomplete measures. In this post we explain how tracking a simple metrics will give you measurable and meaningful goal to focus upon
Filed under: Monitoring
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Visualizing layered graphs using Sugiyama method
Almost every complex problem can and should be reduced to the underlying fundamental concepts. This post is an example where a graph visualization task turned out to be adopting Sugiyama method for layered graph visualization.
Filed under: Monitoring
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Discovering the systems your application is integrated with
Transparency to how the distributed applications behave in production is valuable insight. One of the aspects of this insight is to be able to see which external systems are integrated with your application nodes. This post describes how we implemented to support for discovery, modeling and visualization of such integrations.
Filed under: Monitoring
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Time in distributed systems
Handling the concept of time in a distributed system is apparently different from having to deal with just one system clock. This post will cover the approach we took when making sure the data gathered from different nodes with different system clocks in different timezones can be linked together.
Filed under: Monitoring
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Distributed tracing
Plumbr is able to trace user interactions across multiple nodes. In this post we describe how we built the solution enabling the distributed tracing.
Filed under: Monitoring
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Why is troubleshooting so hard?
Troubleshooting issues in production systems tends to be tough and unpredictable. In this post I explain the reasons why and offer solutions to alleviate the pain.
Filed under: Monitoring Programming
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Most frequent performance bottlenecks
Explore the list of the performance issues with the most impact to end user experience. The data set originates from 1,020 different deployments Plumbr was monitoring during the past three months.
Filed under: Monitoring Performance
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Monitoring scheduled jobs
May Java applications run business-critical scheduled processes in the background. Monitoring whether or not such jobs have completed successfully has been a tricky task so far. Not anymore - Plumbr is now capable of monitoring the scheduled jobs in your applications.
Filed under: Monitoring
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Do you know how your Lucene indexes are performing?
We are glad to announce that since March 2016, Plumbr is capable of monitoring the performance of Lucene indexes. This is good news in case you are using Elasticsearch, Solr, Jackrabbit as the building blocks in your applications. Find out the misbehaving indexes and understand how to improve the user experience.
Filed under: Monitoring Product Updates