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Transport Cinnamon Matrices From Lagom To Prometheus

September 4, 2018Architecture, cluster, Lagom, Monitoring, Studio-Scala, Telemetry#Cinnamon, #prometheus, #telemetry, lagom, Monitoring

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

Introduction to Consul (Part-1)

June 18, 2018July 28, 2018Microservices, Studio-DevOps, Studio-Scala, Telemetry, Web Services

Reading Time: 4 minutes In this blog, we are going to discuss an amazing tool used for service discovery and configuring services using Consul. Hold on a second!! There must be some questions in your mind: Aren’t there so many tools already doing that and are being used by everyone? Wow !! I have been using tools like Zookeeper for service discovery, And they are pretty good. Now, do Continue Reading

Cinnamon: Way For Monitoring & Metrics Generation for Akka ActorSystem

July 3, 2017August 10, 2018Akka, Studio-Scala, Telemetry#Cinnamon, #telemetry, actosystem, Akka, cluster, gradle, lightbend, Logback, logs, maven, opensource, sbt, scala, technology

Reading Time: 2 minutes We are developing huge applications and deployed on multiple virtual machines and clusters. For monitoring applications, we need to enable logs into our application and analysis that logs with help of some tools like elastic stack. But !! what if we need to check health of application on virtual machines and clusters? For that, we are using several Metrics for system health check like Gauges, Continue Reading