Monitoring Blog
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Files in these directories will be listed in reverse chronological order.
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Using the Shinken livestatus module with MongoDB
Sunday, January 29, 2012 in Insights
In my last post i was explaining why it became necessary to have an alternative to the sqlite-based storing of log data. One of the many new features of the upcoming release 1.0 “Heroic Hedgehog” of the Shinken monitoring software will be …
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Pimp my Livestatus
Sunday, January 22, 2012 in Insights
In the early days of the Shinken monitoring system you were quite limited in how many web user interfaces you could use. There was the old CGI-based Nagios-Webinterface or (thanks to the merlin-mysql broker module) the Ninja GUI from OP5. At the same …
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Mod-Gearman with Embedded Perl
Sunday, January 01, 2012 in Insights
The upcoming version 1.1.2 of Mod-Gearman will have embedded Perl support which greatly improves performance when you have lots of Perl checks. Mod-Gearman will get three new configuration options: enable_embedded_perl use_embedded_perl_implicitly …
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Happy new year !
Friday, December 30, 2011 in Insights
As 2011 is now nearly history, it’s time for a short look behind what happened to labs.consol.de and its projects this year. Our support forum has been started. It is in quite good use as it seems. mod_gearman started its life on the Nagios …
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Devoxx 2011 - Wrap up
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 in Insights
Now that Devoxx has finished and we had a weekend in between, it is time to wrap things up. In this last #Devoxx blog for this year, everyone from the ConSol posse draws his very own personal conclusion. Jan This was my first visit to Devoxx, and I …
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Devoxx 2011 - Day 4 (cnt.)
Monday, November 21, 2011 in Insights
Here are two talks reviews from Jan which didn’t made it into our last blog. (But this was not the only hangover this week ;-). Tomorrow we will wrap up things with some personal statements about the whole show. Sorry, for day 5 we didn’t …
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Devoxx 2011 - Day 4
Friday, November 18, 2011 in Insights
The last full day was again packed with high-end tech stuff before we enter the 10th anniversary party of Devoxx. So I guess, the fifth day gets a bit less blog coverage than the previous blogs. The ConSol posse has some reviews about Akka, JavaFX, …
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Devoxx 2011 - Day 3
Thursday, November 17, 2011 in Insights
Day 3 and Devoxx is running at full blast now. Rooms are crowded, WiFi breaks down periodically, lanes in front of the toilets and lunch lanes, but nothing will stop the FUN we are having here ;-). There we go with our reviews about the diabolical …
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Devoxx 2011 - Day 2
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 in Insights
On the second the rest of the ConSol posse joined us : Christoph, Christian and Torsten arrived for the fireside chat. A session format which lacked a bit the tension, but there were some rare highlights like the following joke: Q: …
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Devoxx Talk "Jolokia - JMX on Capsaicin" Shownotes
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 in Insights
Here are the links I mentioned in my Devoxx Tools-in-Action Talk “Jolokia - JMX on Capsaicin”. Most of the pointers can of course be reached by starting at www.jolokia.org Clients Java: http://www.jolokia.org/client/java.html Javascript: …