Application Performance Management & Monitoring

[mattab]

With Piwik we would like to offer an open source Application Performance and Monitoring tool for every app developer and system administrator to benefit from. One of the goals will be to let users easily collect large number of metrics with a low resolution (eg. 10s or 1min).

See also:

• API analytics #4178
• JS error tracking #4977

Tools:

• Collectd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectd
• Statsd looks very cool:
  • blog post
  • Collector Highlight Series: StatsD
• Graphite is very popular with Grafana client
• Cacti looks interesting too. Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool, it stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database.
• See alternatives such as NewRelic and others.

What to track

• Counters
  • A counter is a monotonically-increasing, unsigned, 64-bit integer used to represent the number of times an event has occurred. By tracking the deltas between measurements of a counter over intervals of time, an aggregation layer can derive rates, acceleration, etc.
• Gauges
  • A gauge returns instantaneous measurements of something using signed, 64-bit integers. This value does not need to be monotonic.
• Histograms
  • A histogram tracks the distribution of a stream of values (e.g. the number of milliseconds it takes to handle requests), adding gauges for the values at meaningful quantiles: 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th, 99th, 99.9th.

Resources

• The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Graphite

[mattab]

When looking at defining good API for tracking custom server monitoring metrics, we could look at existing popular platforms that offer good APIs. For example I saw that Google launched this tool "Cloud Monitoring" http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2015/01/Gain-insight-into-the-performance-of-your-apps-with-Google-Cloud-Monitoring_13.html Cassandra Performance Dashboard You can also tailor Cloud Monitoring to suit your needs: you can publish custom metrics to our API and bring them together with system and infrastructure metrics on custom dashboards. which could be an interesting API to take a look at

[chrisprobst]

Nothing new on this one?

[mattab]

Interesting update: https://thenewstack.io/new-relic-changes-business-model-open-sources-agents-and-instrumentation/ - NewRelic open sources their server agent

In this way, an organization might take New Relic’s open source code and use it for its own own purposes, while also contributing changes to the project. Under the terms of the license, they can use the agent libraries for their applications. Once the application is running, the telemetry diagnostic information that is emitted essentially “can be pointed at any number of open source backends or commercial backends,” such as those New Relic provides, Staples said.

[reddipravi]

Hello Aubry,

I was trying to reach you over the email for the enterprise license and support through Innocraft Ltd. what would be the best way to reach you?

Thanks Praveen

On Aug 4, 2020, at 4:21 PM, Matthieu Aubry notifications@github.com wrote:

 Interesting update: https://thenewstack.io/new-relic-changes-business-model-open-sources-agents-and-instrumentation/ - NewRelic open sources their server agent

In this way, an organization might take New Relic’s open source code and use it for its own own purposes, while also contributing changes to the project. Under the terms of the license, they can use the agent libraries for their applications. Once the application is running, the telemetry diagnostic information that is emitted essentially “can be pointed at any number of open source backends or commercial backends,” such as those New Relic provides, Staples said.

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