Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

December 2018

Building confidence via automated container security scanning - Xavier Vello - DockerCon EU 2018

Container image security scanners are one of several tools we use in our development process to ensure the software that we ship to our customers is reliable and safe. In this talk, we’ll discuss our approach to continuous vulnerability monitoring (spoiler: it’s all automated), and how it increases our responsiveness while decreasing our operational cost.

Key metrics for monitoring Tomcat

Apache Tomcat is a server for Java-based web applications, developed by the Apache Software Foundation. The Tomcat project’s source was originally created by Sun Microsystems and donated to the foundation in 1999. Tomcat is one of the more popular server implementations for Java web applications and runs in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Analyzing Tomcat logs and metrics with Datadog

In Part 2 of this series, we showed you how to collect key Tomcat performance metrics and logs with open source tools. These tools are useful for quickly viewing health and performance data from Tomcat, but don’t provide much context for how those metrics and logs relate to other applications or systems within your infrastructure.

ActiveMQ architecture and key metrics

Apache ActiveMQ is message-oriented middleware (MOM), a category of software that sends messages between applications. Using standards-based, asynchronous communication, ActiveMQ allows loose coupling of the elements in an IT environment, which is often foundational to enterprise messaging and distributed applications.

Collecting ActiveMQ metrics

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how ActiveMQ works, and the key metrics you can monitor to ensure proper performance of your messaging infrastructure. In this post, we’ll show you some of the tools that you can use to collect ActiveMQ metrics. This includes tools that ship with ActiveMQ, and some other tools that make use of Java Management Extensions (JMX) to monitor ActiveMQ brokers and destinations.