Hi, 

During the implementation of iris-history-monitor using ZPM, I'm bumping on the following scenario:

My Installer.cls has a call for the Custom Sensors Class method.  The Custom information looks like a charm as I described in this article: 

IRIS History Monitor using custom built-in REST API /api/monitor/metrics

But, now I'm trying to replicate the same behavior using the module.xml to work with ZPM.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Export generator="Cache" version="25">
  <Document name="iris-history-monitor.ZPM">
    <Module>
      <Name>iris-history-monitor</Name>
      <Version>1.2.2</Version>
      <Packaging>module</Packaging>
      <SourcesRoot>src</SourcesRoot>
      <Resource Name="diashenrique.historymonitor.dashboard.PKG"/>
      <Resource Name="diashenrique.historymonitor.util.PKG"/>
      <Invokes>
        <Invoke Class="diashenrique.historymonitor.util.customSensors" Method="CustomApplicationMetrics"></Invoke>
        <Invoke Class="diashenrique.historymonitor.util.Favorite" Method="%AddFavorite">
          <Arg>HistoryMonitor</Arg>
          <Arg>/csp/irismonitor/dashboard.csp</Arg>
        </Invoke>
      </Invokes>
      <CSPApplication
        Url="/csp/irismonitor"
        Path="/src/csp"
        Directory="{$cspdir}/irismonitor"
        ServeFiles="1"
        Recurse="1"
        CookiePath="/csp/irismonitor"
        UseCookies="2"
        MatchRoles=":%DB_${Namespace}"
        PasswordAuthEnabled="1"
        UnauthenticatedEnabled="0"
       />
    </Module>
  </Document>
</Export>

Preview releases are now available for the first version (v1.0) of InterSystems System Alerting and Monitoring (InterSystems SAM for short).
  
InterSystems SAM v1.0 provides a modern monitoring solution for InterSystems IRIS-based products. It allows high-level views of clusters and single-node drilled down metrics-visualization together with alerts notifications.  This first version provides visualization for more than one hundred InterSystems IRIS kernel metrics, and users can extend the default-supplied Grafana template to their liking.
 
V1.0 is meant to be a simple and intuitive baseline. Please help us make it great by trying it and sending us feedback!

SAM can display information from InterSystems-based instance starting with version 2019.4
 
SAM is only available in container format. You will need the SAM Manager container plus a small set of additional open-source components (Prometheus and Grafana) that are added automatically by the composition file.

SAM components and the SAM Manager Community Edition are available from

• The WRC Preview page: as “SAM Components” and “SAM Manager” 
• Externally at the SAM components Github repo & the SAM Manager on Docker Hub if you want to download it before the docker-compose runs (this last link might not be available for few hours but the container is pullable)

If you are traveling or prefer a voice-based  Q&A description on what SAM is, here is a podcast we have prepared for you: 

Note (October 2022): yape has been deprecated and replaced by YASPE, there is no more development on yape.

Note (June 2019): A lot has changed, for the latest details go here

Note (Sept 2018): There have been big changes since this post first appeared, I suggest using the Docker Container version, the project and details for running as a container are still in the same place  published on GitHub so you can download, run - and modify if you need to.

One of the topics that comes up often when managing Ensemble productions is disk space:

The database (the CACHE.DAT file) grows in a rate that was unexpected; or the Journal files build up at a fast pace; or the database grows continuously though the system has a scheduled purge of the Ensemble runtime data.

It would have been better if these kind of phenomena would have been observed and accounted for yet at the development and testing stage rather than on a live system.

For this purpose I created a basic framework that could aid in this task.

Hi everyone,

The project IRIS History Monitor received an update, using ZPM and the built-in REST API /api/monitor/metrics.

Hi all.

A long time ago I enabled Activity Monitoring to be able to save myself headaches in the future when looking at the performance of various message routes through our productions.  It's served it's purpose of answering questions on how many messages we process a week etc but I had not had the chance to really dig down into the stats for specific message types or destinations to pin point issues.

That time has come, as I have an outbound that periodically queues up without much rhyme or reason.

Hi Community!

The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ System Alerting and Monitoring Made Easy

Hi Community,

The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Understanding System Performance Metrics

Hello! This article continues the article "Making Prometheus Monitoring for InterSystems Caché". We will take a look at one way of visualizing the results of the work of the ^mgstat tool. This tool provides the statistics of Caché performance, and specifically the number of calls for globals and routines (local and over ECP), the length of the write daemon’s queue, the number of blocks saved to the disk and read from it, amount of ECP traffic and more. ^mgstat can be launched separately (interactively or by a job), and in parallel with another performance measurement tool, ^pButtons.

Off the back of the Interface Monitoring post I had created a class that queries the Ens.AlertRequest global and returns the entries between 6pm the night before and 6am in the morning.   

I tested this build in our T&D environments and the build worked very well.

However in our production environment the query is being truncated, by what I believe to be a timeout and I get a partial query output.

In the System>SQL pages my 12 hour query times out.

I compared the Global size by running a SELECT MAX(ID) query and got a return of 60,244,962 records.

This post is dedicated to the task of monitoring a Caché instance using SNMP. Some users of Caché are probably doing it already in some way or another. Monitoring via SNMP has been supported by the standard Caché package for a long time now, but not all the necessary parameters are available “out of the box”. For example, it would be nice to monitor the number of CSP sessions, get detailed information about the use of the license, particular KPI’s of the system being used and such. After reading this article, you will know how to add your parameters to Caché monitoring using SNMP.

Hi all,

I recently discovered the Monitoring Activity Volume feature in IRIS and I was amazed by it. So, I put it to work in one of our productions. It is nice how easy it is to set up and all the possibilites that came with it.

But there's something weird: the numbers. Actually, one of the BP is stating a time of more than 6 seconds to process:

But it is not really possible, as our production is running at a pace of about 40 msg/second, being this one the first step. So my question is: how is this avg. duration calculated? What does this time include? Is it in seconds?

Thanks a lot,

Just wanted to share my Zabbix template for monitoring InterSystems IRIS on Linux servers.

It monitors irisusr (configurable) memory consumption:

• Virtual memory size
• Percentage of real memory
• Resident set size
• Size of data segment
• Size of code segment
• Peak resident set size
• Size of locked memory
• Size of shared libraries
• Peak virtual memory size
• Size of pinned pages
• Size of page table entries
• Size of process code + data + stack segments
• Size of stack segment
• Size of swap space used

How to use:

1. Check that you have Zabbix installed (I'm using version 4.

Hello,

I want to create a dashboard with a line graph that shows system availability over time. I used this code to create a Dashboard:

            Set tItem = ##class(%DeepSee.UserLibrary.Link).%New()
                Set tItem.fullName = "Availability"
                Set tPage = "Availability.UI.CSVImport.zen"
                Set tItem.href = $system.CSP.GetPortalApp($namespace,tPage)_tPage
                Set tItem.title = "Availability"
                Set tSC = tItem.%Save()

I'm a DBA and support Caché databases on AIX. I coded shell scripts for monitoring journaling status, databases size, license end date.

We recently got a new instance of Caché on Windows. I'm just curious to know whether anyone coded database monitoring scripts on Windows using PowerShell or any other scripting language.

If yes, please share the details.

Thanks & Regards,

Bharath Nunepalli.

Hi all,

I'm looking to set up monitoring for several interfaces. I understand that I can set an Inactivity Timeout. However, obviously there are messages coming through more frequently during certain hours than other hours. 

Is there a way to set an Inactivity Timeout for each hour of the day instead of one value that is used all day long? 

Best,

Erin

I've setup ODBC connection so I can access Cache data within SQL Server.

I want to be able to write SQL queries for internal monitoring purposes, similar to what's possible with SQL Server.  Specifically I want to be able to check mirroring status (i.e. check which is the current primary mirror member), check the status of any Ensemble productions (started/stopped), check the status of business hosts etc.  I want to do all of this from SQL Server to go with our other system monitoring solutions.

Available at:

https://hub.docker.com/r/yape/yape/

$ docker container run --rm -v "$(pwd)":/data yape/yape --version
yape 2.2.6

See the readme at:

https://github.com/murrayo/yape

Changes include:

• Reinstate config file, make some more changes to smarter x and y axis.
• Update line style choices in config file.
• Solve for yyyy dates and yy dates or bail out. Make date string consistent for windows title (drop decimal places), add short day to title.

Has anyone tried the new Activity Volume Statistics and Monitoring  in Ensembel 2016.1? I would love to get some feedback.

If you haven't read about this, there is a dashboard that provides counts and response times for messages sent and received by each configuration item. Alternatively the underlying data is arranged in tables that should make it easy for you to use your favorite SQL reporting tools to generate reports for short term performance monitoring or longer term capacity planning.

Dave

Can someone tell me if intersystems-ru/deepsee-sysmon-dashboards is developed for a specific version of Ensemble? Looks like it could be useful to my group but we aren't upgrading till later this year and we are on 2015.2.2.

Thanks

Scott

In looking at the Production monitor within Ensemble, I was wondering if there is a way we could customize it for our use. I notice it is basically a dashboard.

For example I would only like to truly display those Services, Processes, and Operations that are truly in dire need of attention. The Monitor out of the box just seems too busy, and I would like to simplify it.

I was trying to find a sample how a Monitor Dashboard would be setup, but I am not seeing anything in ENSDEMO, or SAMPLES. Has anyone created a Custom Dashboard/Monitor for their purposes?

Hi

I want to get the total amount of time that a process is active or the timestamp that it was created/started.

I tried the %SYS.ProcessQuery class, but I did not find any related information.

Is there any way to get this information from a process?

I'm using Caché 2017.

Hi,

We want to monitor an Ensemble Production and send custom email alerts in function of some Rules. For example, if we normally receive 1 message per second, if suddenly we receive 5 or more messages per second, we want to send an email alert. And if tomorrow we don't want to check this again, we want to disable it through Ensemble Business Rules.

Hi All

I'm looking for the a simple-quick-easy solution to monitor a SQL table thought Ensemble.

I have a process that update a DataBase ,a scheduled task that runs every night  (Not Ensemble)

In the end it updates a table (replica_status) with a new recored with two fileds:  Id, DateTime

I looked around the community but didn't find an answerd case.

I'm thinking on a Task that will run a sql outboud adapter BO that checks that table and send a alert if no new record was created yesterday

is this the right approach or is there's a better solution?

Thanks Gadi

Has anyone done any kind of integration with Dynatrace, which is a JVM transaction monitoring tool? Our organization uses this extensively with our Java and .Net applications and we wanted to know if it is even possible.

Hi

The message is received at all times.

cconsole.log

(12660) 0 Failed to mount c:\intersystems\ensemble\mgr\ensemble\ because its default collation (20) is not available...(repeated 60 times)

What it this?

Help-me

Tks

Hi community,
I need to monitor Caché Intersystems with some custom indicators.
I started customizing the SNMP Mib. But I've been in a Zabbix event, all speakers use ODBC to monitor their database, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL ...
What is the best way? Use ODBC or SNMP Custom Mib?
What are you guys using?

I want to understand how this message is build:

[SYSTEM MONITOR] CPUusage Alert: CPUusage = 99, 99, 99 (Max value is 85).

Caché keep a log of cpu usage (99,99,99) and how is the frequency of check of this?

how can i chance the max value? is that possible?

Best,

A practical guide to using the tools PERFMON and MONLBL.

Introduction

When investigating performance problems, I often use the utilities ^PERFMON and ^%SYS.MONLBL to identify exactly where in the application pieces of code are taking a long time to execute. In this short paper I will describe an approach that first uses ^PERFMON to identify the busiest routines and then uses ^%SYS.MONLBL to analyze those routines in detail to show which lines are the most expensive.

The details of ^PERFMON and ^%SYS.

In short, I wanted to react on CPUusage warnings and alerts with my own actions. It seemed that it was possible in my Caché version (2015.1): 
http://docs.intersystems.com/cache201513/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cl…

But all my attempts silently failed. Callback code was as simple as possible: 

Class %z.Monitor.Health Extends SYS.Monitor.Health.AbstractCallback

I've got my alerts written to alerts.log and cconsole.