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How to shoot yourself in the foot building a Java Agent
In this post, we would like to share with you several examples demonstrating the complexities encountered in building the support for some seemingly simple aspects our Agents need to cope with. The examples are simplified a bit, but are extracted from real world problems we needed to solve some time ago.
Filed under: Java
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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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Most popular Java application servers: 2017 edition
Statistics about the most commonly used Java application servers from 2013 to 2017. See how Tomcat, JBoss/WildFly, Weblogic, Jetty and Glassfish have gained or lost market share over time.
Filed under: Java
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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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Product Launch: Introducing Plumbr Browser Agent
We are happy to announce the general availability of our new product - Plumbr Browser Agent. With this addition, you can monitor how the end users interact with your application in the client-side. As a result you will have objective information about the application performance available in real time.
Filed under: Plumbr Product Updates
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Java version and vendor data analyzed: 2017 edition
Publishing the statistics from 1,400 unique environments monitored by Plumbr during the March-April 2017. The data exposed shares information about the most popular Java versions and JVM vendors. We also look how these numbers have changed from 2013 to 2017.
Filed under: Java
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Plumbr raises venture capital, hires first senior executive
We have two important milestone announcements to share with you. We raised our first round of institutional venture capital funding from Karma Ventures, and have former CIO of
Filed under: Plumbr
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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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Discover your application architecture with Plumbr
Adoption of the microservices has introduced several new problems to our field. One of such issues is the ever-growing and non-transparent complexity of your distributed deployment. Plumbr is now able to discover and visualize your microservices based deployments based on the data discovered during actual production traffic monitoring.
Filed under: Product Updates