DCOS

Audit DC/OS Service via Prometheus/Filebeat

Reading Time: 3 minutes In our previous blog post, How to audit DC/OS Services?, we learned how to locally audit service/app in DC/OS via dcos-adminrouter.service. This blog is in continuation of the previous one and here we will explore how we can audit DC/OS Service via Prometheus /Filebeat. Quick Recap We have seen that DC/OS doesn’t provides any web interface is to track the change in service/app configs , Continue Reading

How to audit DC/OS Services?

Reading Time: 4 minutes DC/OS is a distributed systems kernel that lets you manage multiple machines as if they were a single computer. Its included web interface facilitates user to interact with its services. Now, this is where it gets quite messy to keep track of the users who are interacting with the services running in the cluster. It is the responsibility of the cluster-admin to keep track and Continue Reading

Need the Grafana slack monitoring alert? Let’s create it now.

Reading Time: 3 minutes In my previous blog, we created the first Grafana dashboard. Now in this blog, we will create our first monitoring Grafana alert. Before creating monitoring alerts, we need to add the notification channel through which we will be notified. Here, we will be adding slack as the notification channel. Slack notification channel: First, open the URL http://localhost:3000 in the browser and log in to the Continue Reading

Let’s create your first Grafana dashboard

Reading Time: 4 minutes In my previous blog, we discussed the setup of Grafana-Graphite for JMX monitoring.  Now we will create a first Grafana dashboard where we will create Grafana queries to visualize JMX metrics stored in Graphite. As we know, Grafana UI runs on http://localhost:3000/ by default so let’s open the URL in the browser with the default username and password which is admin: admin After login either Continue Reading

Store Git Credentials Encrypted

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hey folks in this blog post we would be looking over how we can store our git credentials in an encrypted format over linux remote servers, let’s first quickly have a look why we want to do it and what git provide us with as options. Git credentials helpers So git provide many types of credential helpers like Store The first and most basic type Continue Reading

Running jmx2graphite as a java agent to push the JMX metrics into Graphite

Reading Time: 2 minutes In my previous blog, we discussed how to monitor a Kafka stream application using Grafana and Graphite. In this solution, we used jmx2graphite as a metrics exporter which takes the metrics from the Jolokia URL where Jolokia exposes the JMX metrics and pushes those metrics to Graphite. But, there is a problem with this solution that we need to deploy one jmx2graphite per service. So Continue Reading

Monitor a Kafka stream application with Graphite-Grafana using JMX metrics

Reading Time: 5 minutes A few days back, we got the requirement that we need to monitor a Kafka stream application using JMX metrics. We looked for the solution and reached to the conclusion which we will discuss in this blog. I will try to explain each and every component of the solution along with the setup and the integration part of the whole system. Proposed solution: Service (application) exposes Continue Reading

Generate Docker Image For Mesosphere Kafka Client

Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever tried to access Kafka running on mesos on top of DCOS, and figure out that you end up with no latest Kafka client image in the docker hub? I have uploaded a new image with the Latest Kafka Stable Version 2.0.0, and one can get it easily – docker pull piyushdocker/kafka-client-2.0.0-image If you want to create your own image with any other Continue Reading