Comments on: Palantir Monitoring Server: where build beats buy http://blog.palantirtech.com/2009/02/23/palantir-monitoring-server-where-build-beats-buy/ Articles from the Engineering Group at Palantir Technologies Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:51:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Fabrice Bacchella http://blog.palantirtech.com/2009/02/23/palantir-monitoring-server-where-build-beats-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-802 Fabrice Bacchella Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:48:11 +0000 http://blog.palantirtech.com/?p=186#comment-802 Which version did you use of rrd4j ? A lot of modifications are not in the official release, see http://code.google.com/p/rrd4j/ Which version did you use of rrd4j ? A lot of modifications are not in the official release, see http://code.google.com/p/rrd4j/

]]> By: James http://blog.palantirtech.com/2009/02/23/palantir-monitoring-server-where-build-beats-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-298 James Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:26:55 +0000 http://blog.palantirtech.com/?p=186#comment-298 Thanks for that - I didn't know about plotkit. We've been looking at amchart, protovis, google vizualizations, and jfreechart of course. As an internal app - performance on older browsers isn't a concern, so i'll definitely take a closer look. We also managed to wrap the horrible rrd4j api into something a bit easier on the (java programmer) eye. I'll try to get it someplace on the net. Cheers! James Thanks for that – I didn’t know about plotkit. We’ve been looking at amchart, protovis, google vizualizations, and jfreechart of course.

As an internal app – performance on older browsers isn’t a concern, so i’ll definitely take a closer look.

We also managed to wrap the horrible rrd4j api into something a bit easier on the (java programmer) eye. I’ll try to get it someplace on the net.

Cheers!

James

]]> By: Eric http://blog.palantirtech.com/2009/02/23/palantir-monitoring-server-where-build-beats-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Eric Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:44:03 +0000 http://blog.palantirtech.com/?p=186#comment-297 In the screenshots above, we used PlotKit (http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/) to generate the graphs. PlotKit is a JavaScript-based graphing package, and it enabled us to do some nice dynamic graphing in the browser. Due to performance problems with older browsers however, we recently had to switch to using JFreeChart (http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/). Plus one for usability, but minus one for dynamic graphs -- we're now rendering graphs on the server-side as PNGs. In the screenshots above, we used PlotKit (http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/) to generate the graphs. PlotKit is a JavaScript-based graphing package, and it enabled us to do some nice dynamic graphing in the browser.

Due to performance problems with older browsers however, we recently had to switch to using JFreeChart (http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/). Plus one for usability, but minus one for dynamic graphs — we’re now rendering graphs on the server-side as PNGs.

]]> By: James http://blog.palantirtech.com/2009/02/23/palantir-monitoring-server-where-build-beats-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-296 James Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:21:46 +0000 http://blog.palantirtech.com/?p=186#comment-296 Thats very interesting - might i ask what you used to generate the graphs? if is a wrapper around an open source bit of software - is is something you might consider posting? thanks! Thats very interesting – might i ask what you used to generate the graphs? if is a wrapper around an open source bit of software – is is something you might consider posting? thanks!

]]> By: Andrew Coleson http://blog.palantirtech.com/2009/02/23/palantir-monitoring-server-where-build-beats-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Andrew Coleson Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:25:51 +0000 http://blog.palantirtech.com/?p=186#comment-172 Cool, thanks for the reply! Cool, thanks for the reply!

]]> By: Ari http://blog.palantirtech.com/2009/02/23/palantir-monitoring-server-where-build-beats-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Ari Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:37:19 +0000 http://blog.palantirtech.com/?p=186#comment-170 We took a look at <a href='http://www.hyperic.com/' rel="nofollow">Hyperic</a>, <a href='http://www.zenoss.com/' rel="nofollow">Zenoss</a>, and <a href='http://www.nagios.org/' rel="nofollow">Nagios</a>. The really important feature for us was JMX integration so we could get some visibility into our application. Zenoss and Hyperic both have JMX support to some degree, but both of them sort of have it bolted on as an afterthought, rather than a first class data source. Additionally, this is just our v1 of the system. We have a few tricks up our sleeves and this architecture is just the beginning. (That's all I can say for now) We took a look at Hyperic, Zenoss, and Nagios. The really important feature for us was JMX integration so we could get some visibility into our application. Zenoss and Hyperic both have JMX support to some degree, but both of them sort of have it bolted on as an afterthought, rather than a first class data source.

Additionally, this is just our v1 of the system. We have a few tricks up our sleeves and this architecture is just the beginning. (That’s all I can say for now)

]]> By: Andrew Coleson http://blog.palantirtech.com/2009/02/23/palantir-monitoring-server-where-build-beats-buy/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Andrew Coleson Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:35:02 +0000 http://blog.palantirtech.com/?p=186#comment-169 Excellent post. Can you mention which open-source packages you looked at and rejected? Excellent post. Can you mention which open-source packages you looked at and rejected?

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