The complete MoSKito integration guide – Step 5 – MoSKito-Central in remote mode
In the previous step we integrated MoSKito-Central in embedded mode, today is exactly the promised fine day to integrate MoSKito-Central in remote (standalone) mode. You may ask "Why do we need it?", the answer is: our burgershop has become a real empire with multiple application instances and we want to monitor all of them and consolidate the obtained performance data in one place. So, let's start! (more…)
The complete MoSKito integration guide – Step 4 – Central storage
Today we are going to unlock even more MoSKito power: more persisting, more centralising. As you know, we can access MoSKito producer's statistics while application is running: http://localhost:8080/burgershop/mui/mskShowAllProducers. But what if: we want to check statistics for some time ago, like the last night, when we were sleeping? we want to have and check statistics for all our applications, not only a single burgershop (as good businessmen, we surely have various projects to be safe from total fail one day!)? we want to automatically analyse the collected (in time and space) data and make some strategical changes, based on results of this analysis? The answer to all these if's is: MoSKito-Central. (more…)
Integrating MoSKito into Java EE 6 + JBoss AS 7 environment
MoSKito enables you to analyze and monitor your running Java application. During this blog post, we guide you how to fully integrate MoSKito within Java EE 6 environment und run it with JBoss Application Server 7. Furthermore we provide some hooks for integrating Producers, Threshold and Accumulators. (more…)
The complete MoSKito integration guide – Step 3 – Custom producers
In previous steps, we spoke about general integration of MoSKito and WebUI and adding custom counters. Today, we are going to dive deeper and build own stats object. (more…)
The complete MoSKito integration guide – Step 2 - Add some counters
In previous post, we performed general integration of MoSKito into the target project. In today's step (rather short), we're going to add some business-value-related information with a Counter. (more…)
The complete MoSKito integration guide – Step 1
After we created our guinea pig in the previous step, it's now time to integrate MoSKito-Essential into our application. Our plan for today is: Add monitoring to the core parts of our code. Download and connect MoSKito Inspect Learn about WebFilters and Listeners At the end of the guide we want to: see the access data in MoSKito Inspect, record a Journey. Lets go! (more…)
The complete MoSKito integration guide - Step 0
Despite the efforts we put into MoSKito documentation, we are continuously facing questions like 'How to do this' and 'How to get that'. Now we want to give you a guide for the whole setup cycle, which this posts starts. The guide will cover a complete application lifecycle with MoSKito, from integration of the first MoSKito-Essential Producer to installing MoSKito-Control and MoSKito-Central setup. But before we start, we need a guinea pig. This is what we do today - set up a simple application for experimental purposes. (more…)
MoSKito: What was and what will be
Slowly but inevitable the holidays are coming and with that an urge to make some kind of retrospective for 2013. We will not do that. But instead we will shortly speak about recent MoSKito development and what lies ahead in 2014. (more…)
Fresh boost for MoSKito documentation
Lately, some of our colleagues had a hard time working with MoSKito documentation. Docs are fine, they said, but finding things is difficult. Sadly, that was true. Why? MoSKito is quite a mature project. It has been developing for the last 6 years, which is a long time for our quickly changing Internet era. Many MoSKito contributors added new features, but didn't have time to fix the old documentation. What they did was writing new docs on top of the ones we had. As a result, MoSKito Confluence Space was full of valuable info, which was totally in a mess. Now, MoSKito documents are getting a new lease of life :) What did we change? (more…)
Salute for all-new moskito.org website!
Recently, you could say there were no serious movements in MoSKito Camp. But this was just a tactical trick, the calm before the storm. Now we're back with a bunch of updates! We shall describe them one by one, so that you could feel their true value. So, today's special is... Brand new moskito.org website! Let's take a look and say why is it great. (more…)
MoSKito: Meet the Swarm!
MoSKito is a relatively old (and mature) project by Internet reasoning (it made its first appearance in 2007). The project has been evolving fast, which led to re-arrangements among its components and caused some chaos in naming. The intention of this post is to explain who's who in MoSKito Universe. Meet the Swarm! (more…)
Guest Writer: Moskito in practice
This entry is user feedback from an author who is not connected to anotheria.net team or MoSKito developers. (more…)
Getting MoSKito to mail to you
So you've set up all the accumulators and thresholds you wanted. Now it's time to get some rest, but you don't want to miss your thresholds getting red? No problem, with Notification Providers, you can handle the alerting in highly customizable way. And here is how. (more…)
Everything in 'Control'
Back in 2010 we were helping Parship to migrate their platform to a new provider and establish working application management. Migration to a new hosting provider and parallel re-architecturing of the platform is a funny combination and it actually rattled from time to time. Now imagine the situation were you have 4 different parties with at least 4 different tools and every tool shows something different. (more…)
MoSKito 2.1.5 introduces REST API
Hi MoSKito community, we published MoSKito version 2.1.5. First we…