Monitoring on Ricky Moorhouse

Monitoring API Connect - 2020 update

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Even though a lot has changed within the API Connect product and the types and numbers of stacks we're running since I first posted an overview of monitoring API Connect , the main areas we monitor haven't.

Trawler - Metric gathering for API Connect

Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

As part of our work in running and monitoring our API Connect cloud deployments we've built some of our own tooling to assist with monitoring what is going on within the deployments. Trawler is one of these items which is used to gather metrics from a Kubernetes based deployment of API Connect.

Introducing hem

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

hem is a synthetic monitoring tool which monitors HTTP resources on a regular schedule, storing details of the time taken and the reponse code returned.

I've been using Uptime at work for a while for endpoint monitoring and over the time we've been using it made a few tweaks or plugins for it - in particular being able to send metrics from Uptime to Graphite. There were also some more substantial changes we were considering making and we'd built up a number of supporting scripts to populate the checks via the Uptime API when hosts changed. We also have all our other monitoring dashboards in Grafana. In this context I decided that what would be nice is a simple tool that could replace the checking piece and feed that data into our graphite data store to be viewed and alerted on from Grafana.