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Monitoring Java applications: Memory usage, threads and other JRE metrics

In this post we will cover how to monitor the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). You will learn how to assess the performance of your Java application by profiling its memory usage, the garbage collector metrics, monitoring Java daemon and user threads and other fundamental JRE metrics. We will finish with a real Java JRE troubleshooting example using opensource Sysdig and Docker.

Sysdig Monitor 3.0 - Enterprise-grade Prometheus, Kubernetes insights and more.

Today we announced the launch of enterprise-grade Prometheus monitoring with Sysdig Monitor 3.0. We’ve added new Prometheus capabilities like PromQL, a Grafana plugin and new enhancements for our already rich Kubernetes monitoring. If you love Prometheus like we do, and especially if your cloud environment is growing quickly, read on to learn more about what we’re doing with Prometheus, Kubernetes and more.

StackStorm Enterprise HA in Kubernetes - eta

More groups are progressing from just talking about Event-Driven Automation to actually doing it in practice. StackStorm helps make this easy. When organizations start offloading business-critical tasks and automating for real it becomes essential to ensure that the Automation engine itself is not a single point of failure when it is responsible for recovering a fleet of servers, managing datacenters, and automating remediations.

Kubernetes and containers adoption growing fast

Cloud-native development and microservices enable development teams to work more efficiently and innovate faster. Operators appreciate the container environment because it increases infrastructure utilization, enabling them to accomplish more with less while managing critical applications at unprecedented scale. Kubernetes and containers adoption growing fast in the last few years.

Container Monitoring Overview with Sysdig Monitor

Watch this overview of Sysdig Monitor for an in depth look at how to monitor Docker containers, Prometheus metrics and more. Sysdig ContainerVision sees inside containers from the outside and ServiceVision enriches container metrics with service-oriented metadata from Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm, and Mesos - DC/OS.

Grafana's Explore UI: Taking a Deeper Dive into Data with Prometheus Queries

When there’s an incident, Grafana is often the starting point for figuring out a response. Users look at a time series panel and form a hypothesis. And in many situations, they’d like to dive deeper. To help make that easier, Grafana Labs has created the Explore UI, which allows you to iterate quickly through Prometheus queries, while leaving your dashboards intact.

September 2018 Online Meetup: Understanding Storage Options for Kubernetes using Rancher & Longhorn

Although more and more companies choose to containerize their applications and to use Kubernetes to orchestrate their containers, they continue to face a common challenge: how to preserve application data even after a container closes. Without the ability to persist data, containers might seem to have limited use in many workloads, especially in stateful applications and database architectures.

Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus - Prometheus operator tutorial (part 3).

We covered how to install a complete ‘Kubernetes monitoring with Prometheus’ stack in the previous chapters of this guide. But using the Prometheus Operator framework and its Custom Resource Definitions has significant advantages over manually adding metric targets and service providers, which can become cumbersome for large deployments and doesn’t fully utilize Kubernetes’ orchestrator capabilities.

Deploying AppDynamics Agents to OpenShift Using Init Containers

Ready to deploy an AppD application agent to OpenShift? These detailed examples show you how. There are several ways to instrument an application on OpenShift with an AppDynamics application agent. The most straightforward way is to embed the agent into the main application image.