I am exploring the various Tracing Systems. I was looking into Light Step recently.
I have integrated my application for OpenTracing where I use the tracer from Light Step.
Now how can view the traces I am generating.
For example in Jaeger they had a ready to use docker image which can be used for quick demo.
Can somebody please help me here ?
Unlike Jaeger, LightStep is a commercial SaaS offering. If you wanted to try out their service, you'd need to contact their sales team.
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I have started using sentry within my org and loving it so far.
I've been trying to use its performance monitoring tool with custom metrics added.
While I can add custom metrics to the transactions I'm generating in sentry_sdk (for Python), I can't get access to them on the dashboard of our self-hosted installation of sentry.
After a lot of digging, I came across this paragraph here which states that
This feature is only available to organization on our latest plans which include Dynamic Sampling. Customers on legacy plans must move to one of these plans in order to access custom metrics.
From what I gather, I believe their plans in general is to run sentry on their servers. Unless you opt-in to their self-hosted code that can be downloaded from github here.
This is absolutely a bummer because I know my org will not consider moving internal data to third-party servers.
Wondering if someone knows of a solution to this problem. If sentry folks know of (paid) options that enables this feature on self-hosted version or if someone has hacked into their open source code?
I'd also love to hear any out-of-the-box suggestion you folks might have.
I've seen some APM that only measures web applications which run on WAS.
Can Elastic APM meausure the performance of other applications like pure Java application and etc?
If not, can I use https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/apm/agent/java/1.x/public-api.html (Public API) so that it can measure the performance of non web applications?
I will appreciate any advice. Cheers.
The key features of APM agents is normally in their framework integrations. The Java APM agent is mostly focussed on web frameworks — see the list of supported technologies.
But you already mentioned the public API — if you manually instrument your code with that, you will still be able to use it. It just doesn't automatically understand the framework and you need to help it with that.
Alternatively, if your tool supports OpenTracing then you could use the OpenTracing bridge for that.
I'm using Spring-Insight and Pivotal tc server to deploy and monitor two Spring applications but I have to create some alerts in case of threshold violation. Do you know if this is possible to make this alerting system without creating a customized plugin? I just can't find anything in the documentation.
Finally, I didn't find any solution to my problem but I think this is possible with a customized plugin. I personally chose another option : monitor my application with Dynatrace even if Dynatrace isn't free.
As per Wikipedia:
SnapLogic is a commercial software company that provides Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) tools for connecting Cloud data sources, SaaS applications and on-premises business software applications.
It is surely a competitor to informatica, but it doesn't seem to be just another ETL tool. I have a rough understanding that it is used for data integration but that's about it.
Is it merely an ETL tool or does it have any other functionality? Also, what are iPaaS tools in general?
Well, the best place to learn about SnapLogic will be their website, https://www.snaplogic.com/
Here is a video of SnapLogic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYJK7bjOlA0
A simple developer friendly example:
Let's say i want to search for twitter feeds posted with a particular hashtag by a particular person and write that data into a database of my choice or into amazon S3. SnapLogic allows me to do that without learning about the Twitter API and AWS. SnapLogic takes care of the abstraction for the user so that they can focus on the business logic of things.
The demos are available in the blog: http://www.snaplogic.com/blog
A look at SnapLogic on crunchbase is not a bad idea and you could also find their competitors there.
Your other questions like what are integration platform as a service(iPaaS) tools is too basic and should just be googled.
Basically there are two types of cloud integration, iPaaS and dPaaS
Basically SnapLogic is a iPaas Tool (Integration Platforma as a Service), One of the growing online cloud based integration ETL tool.
As per the Gartner report one of leader in "Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service" refer below link
https://www.snaplogic.com/press-releases/gartner-names-snaplogic-as-a-leader-in-the-magic-quadrant
About tool and few useful links,
1.Designer
It's a canvas area to play and develop your integration pipelines.
2.Manager
Is is a main important to manage all the projects , pipelines, assets ,accounts,creating users and providing permissions, and also import and export of
projects.
3.Dashboard
Monitoring the pipelines logs and information of running pipelines and history.
Useful links:
1.Main site:
https://www.snaplogic.com
2.SnapLogic free trial:
https://www.snaplogic.com/free-trial
3.SnapLogic Documentation
http://doc.snaplogic.com/
4.SnapLogic Community
https://community.snaplogic.com/
5.SnapLogic Blog
https://www.snaplogic.com/blog
Also recently they released SnapLogic Extremem, Please have a look
https://www.snaplogic.com/press-releases/introducing-snaplogic-extreme-to-help-data-engineers-operationalize-cloud-based-big-data-integrations
I am hoping to get some advice as to how i can figure out what is going on with some performance issues i am suffering from. I have a custom MVC application which is running on Azure Websites in West Europe datacenter. I have one of our offices trying to connect to the website from Singapore which is where the problem lies. If i connect to the website myself (from UK) the performance is fast and zippy. If our Singapore office tries to connect the performance is terribly slow. Sometimes getting to the initial homepage is slow (i.e. no database connections required for login page).
The page will sometimes just sit and "hang" there. What i want to know is how can i debug the performance issues with Azure? What kind of monitoring or performance checks can i do to see if it is a website / sql issue.
Thanks
I would suggest using Application Insights. It's easy to add to a custom MVC app, and will give you good info to help determine where exactly the issue lies.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-insights-detect-triage-diagnose/
The Azure New Relic add in from the market place is very useful. There is a free version which gives you plenty of detail on browser performance and basic sql profiling.
It can provide such details as shown in the screen shot below.
You can use the Support Site Extension (http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/12/01/new-updates-to-support-site-extension-for-azure-websites/) which would allow you to look at live event logs and HTTP traffic. There are also some more advanced tools for performance issues (i.e. memory dump, event viewer logs). For a deeper dive into debugging in Azure App Service see: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK4704.
Also as Ben said, Application Insights (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-insights-detect-triage-diagnose/) may help.