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Reading Time: 3 minutes We have already discussed the creation of Grafana dashboards and alerts in my previous blogs. We were doing that manually. But think of, if we need to do that in more than 10 environments then we need to repeat that manual process again and again and sometimes we get frustrated by doing all these repetitive stuff. We should have some automated process for doing this. So Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes As we all know, Kafka exposes the JMX metrics whether it is Kafka broker, connectors or Kafka applications. A few days ago, I got the scenario where I needed to determine Kafka broker health with the help of Kafka stream application’s JMX metrics. It looks bit awkward, right? I should use the broker’s JMX metrics to do this, why am I looking to application JMX Continue Reading
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
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
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
Reading Time: 3 minutes Monitoring is a pain when it comes to distributed applications, and even more when you have shared or non-shared variables to monitor in your application. Here in this blog, I’ll explain two tools which can ease the monitoring efforts, one for generating metrics called Cinnamon and other to visualize them, called Prometheus. Let’s have a quick brief intro about these two – Prometheus – An open-source monitoring system with Continue Reading