Monitoring Blog
This is the blog section. It has two categories: News and Releases.
Files in these directories will be listed in reverse chronological order.
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Introduction to GitLab CI with Maven
Friday, July 14, 2017 in Insights
At ConSol we use GitLab as our central Git server and I am quite happy with its functionality. Lately, I have been playing around with GitLab CI with the objective of finding out if we can use it instead of Jenkins, our current CI server of choice. …
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Introducing Citrus Admin Web UI
Tuesday, July 11, 2017 in Insights
It has been a while since the last release in the Citrus universe. It took us some time to get the new Citrus release 2.7.2 ready for you. Of course we were not being lazy in that time. Besides the new Citrus 2.7.2 release we are proud to announce a …
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Prometheus Monitoring for Java Web Applications without Modifying Their Source Code
Monday, July 10, 2017 in Insights
The Prometheus monitoring tool follows a white-box monitoring approach: Applications actively provide metrics about their internal state to the Prometheus server. In order to instrument an application with Prometheus metrics, you have to add a …
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OMD 2.40 Labs Edition Released on Raspberry Pi
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 in Insights
OMD Labs Edition 2.40 for the Raspberry Pi has been released today. A month and a broken SD card (excessive use of /var/swap during the builds) after the release of the x86 version it is now possible to run a full-blown monitoring system on your ARM …
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OMD 2.40 Labs Edition Released
Wednesday, May 17, 2017 in Insights
OMD Labs Edition 2.40 has been released today. The OMD Labs Edition is based on the standard OMD but adds some more useful addons like Grafana and Influxdb or additional cores like Icinga 2 and Naemon. This releases focus is on security and …
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JAXenter - Sakuli End-2-End-Testing und -Monitoring im Container-Zeitalter
Wednesday, May 03, 2017 in Insights
Sowohl End-2-End-Testing als auch End-2-End-Monitoring folgen dem gleichen Paradigma – sie betrachten eine Applikation aus der Sicht des End-Users. Hier darf es keine Rolle spielen, in welcher Oberflächentechnologie die Applikation geschrieben ist …
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Angular, we have to talk!
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 in Insights
About three or four years ago I had the first contact with AngularJs (obviously V1.x) and what should I say? I loved it! It perfectly added the missing piece that JQuery wasnt able to solve: Bind data to the Dom in an easy way. Since this days there …
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Protecting Passwords in Java Properties Files on Windows
Monday, March 27, 2017 in Insights
Typical Java backend applications need to integrate with existing 3rd party services. In most cases, calls to these 3rd party services are authenticated. Frequently, Java applications are required to use login credentials for authenticated calls: A …
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DevoxxUS - review
Friday, March 24, 2017 in Insights
DevoxxUS 2017 DevoxxUS has been my first Devoxx outside of Europe so far. It was a total different Devoxx experience for me compared to the six times in Antwerp Belgium that I have been to in the past years. Yet different it has been a great …
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Ansible limit pitfalls
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 in Insights
Mit steigender Zahl der im Ansible-Inventory gepflegten Hosts verlängert sich die Laufzeit eines Playbooks. Ansible erkennt zwar, welche Tasks nicht ausgeführt müssen (z.B. weil bestimmte Pakete bereits installiert sind), jedoch kostet auch diese …