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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Getting Started With Java 9's New HTTP Client
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 in Insights
If you ever needed to request HTTP resources with Java, you probably came across several solutions put together from a surprising number of lines. And you probably ended up with using a third party library to achieve your goal in a reasonable …
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Ansible meets DokuWiki
Monday, March 13, 2017 in Insights
Ansible meets DokuWiki Dokumentation belegt in der Rangliste der beliebtesten Arbeiten eines Administrators sicher einen der hinteren Plätze. Neben der Beliebtheit der Aufgabe ist es auch mit zunehmender Anzahl der vorhandenen Systeme immer …
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Testing Logstash Configuration with Citrus and Docker
Wednesday, March 08, 2017 in Insights
The ELK-Stack is a good option to aggregate and visualize distributed logging-data. It basically based on Logstash for extracting and distributing the data Kibana as visualization frontend. The core of the most ELK applications is the Logstash …
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Prometheus und die Fritzbox
Wednesday, March 08, 2017 in Insights
Prometheus ist ein quelloffenes Monitoring- und Alarmierungs-Werkzeug. Seine Basis bildet eine Zeitreihen-Datenbank, auf deren Daten mit einer eingebauten, sehr mächtigen Abfragesprache zugegriffen werden kann. Prometheus verfolgt den Ansatze des …
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Devoxx US - Behavior driven integration with Cucumber and Citrus
Monday, February 27, 2017 in Insights
DevoxxUS In about three weeks DevoxxUS will take place in San Jose, California on March 21-23. After having visited Devoxx Belgium six consecutive times this will be my first Devoxx conference outside of Europe. Once again I am honored to be a …
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Portchannel-Monitoring mit check_nwc_health
Sunday, February 26, 2017 in Insights
Version 6.0 von check_nwc_health ist erschienen und hat neben Aufräumarbeiten unter der Haube ein paar neue Features zu bieten: interface-etherstats F5 Wide IPs Juniper VSD Memberstatus interface-stack-status Interface-Monitoring auf Ethernet-Ebene …
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SNMP-Traps und OMD - Teil 1
Saturday, February 25, 2017 in Insights
SNMP-Traps und Nagios ist eins der Themen, um das man bislang gerne einen großen Bogen gemacht hat. Grundsätzlich gibt es seit etlichen Jahren die AddOns SNMPTT und Nagtrap, deren Konfiguration aber ein wenig mühsam ist. In einem Projekt, bei dem es …
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Using .gitignore the Right Way
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 in Insights
Have you ever wondered what kind of patterns .gitignore allows? Was it **/*/target, target/* or *target*?? Read on and find out! Motivation Everyone who uses Git sooner or later has to define a .gitignore in a newly created project. We simply …
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PNP4Nagios and Grafana
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 in Insights
Many Nagios folks use PNP4nagios to store performance data and draw graphs. Nowadays time series databases like Influxdb are quite trendy and have their own pros and cons. But In the end they visualize the stored metrics with Grafana which comes with …
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Getting Started with Java 9 Modules
Monday, February 13, 2017 in Insights
So, 2017 has arrived - this is the year when Java 9 will finally be released. And with it, the brand new module system called Jigsaw. In January, Marc Reinhold has announced that JDK 9 is feature complete, so we have every reason to be optimistic …