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System Metrics Collectors

The need to monitor and control the system performances is not new. What is new is the trend of clever, lightweight, easy to setup, open source metric collectors in the market, along with timeseries databases to store these metrics, and user friendly front ends through which to display and analyse

Technical

OBIEE Monitoring and Diagnostics with InfluxDB and Grafana

In this article I’m going to look at collecting time-series metrics into the InfluxDB database and visualising them in snazzy Grafana dashboards. The datasets I’m going to use are OS metrics (CPU, Disk, etc) and the DMS metrics from OBIEE, both of which are collected using the support

Technical

Linux cluster sysadmin -- OS metric monitoring with colmux

In this mini-series of blog posts I'm taking a look at a few very useful tools that can make your life as the sysadmin of a cluster of Linux machines. This may be a Hadoop cluster, or just a plain simple set of 'normal' machines on which you want to

Technical

Visualising OBIEE DMS metrics with Graphite

Assuming you have set up obi-metrics-agent and collectl as described in my previous post, you have a wealth of data at your disposal for graphing and exploring in Graphite, including: OS (CPU, disk, network, memory) OBIEE's metrics Metrics about DMS itself Carbon (Graphite's data collector agent) metrics In this post

Technical

Installing obi-metrics-agent, Graphite, and collectl

In the previous post I introduced obi-metrics-agent, an open-source tool from Rittman Mead that can collect DMS metrics from OBIEE and write them to several formats including graphite. Graphite is a tool for storing and graphing time-based metrics. Now in this post we will look at how to install the