https://rickymoorhouse.uk/tags/trawler/ Recent content in Trawler on Ricky Moorhouse Hugo en-gb Mon, 09 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2020/monitoring-apic/ Mon, 09 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2020/monitoring-apic/ <p>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 <a href="https://rickymoorhouse.uk/apic/monitoring/">monitoring API Connect</a> , the main areas we monitor haven't.</p> https://rickymoorhouse.uk/projects/trawler/ Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://rickymoorhouse.uk/projects/trawler/ <p>Trawler is a metric gathering tool for IBM API Connect deployments, built to monitor Kubernetes-based API Connect cloud deployments.</p> <p>It runs alongside API Connect in Kubernetes and identifies API Connect components, exposing metrics to Prometheus or other compatible monitoring tooling. The data feeds into dashboards such as Grafana for visualization.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/ibm/apiconnect-trawler">GitHub Project</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="metrics-collected">Metrics Collected</h2> <h3 id="management-subsystem">Management Subsystem</h3> <ul> <li>API Connect version information (apiconnect_build_info)</li> <li>User and organization counts (users, provider_orgs, consumer_orgs)</li> <li>Catalog and product/API counts</li> </ul> <h3 id="datapower-subsystem">DataPower Subsystem</h3> <ul> <li>TCP connection stats</li> <li>Log target stats (events processed, dropped, pending)</li> <li>Object counts (SSLClientProfile, APICollection, etc.)</li> <li>HTTP statistics</li> </ul> <h3 id="analytics-subsystem">Analytics Subsystem</h3> <ul> <li>Cluster health status</li> <li>Node and shard counts</li> <li>Pending tasks</li> </ul> <h2 id="related-blog-posts">Related Blog Posts</h2> <ul class="post-list"> <li> <div class="post-date">9 Nov 2020</div> <div class="post technical"> <span class="category">Technical</span> <a href="https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2020/monitoring-apic/"> <span class="post-title">Monitoring API Connect - 2020 update</span> </a> </div> </li> <li> <div class="post-date">2 Jun 2020</div> <div class="post technical"> <span class="category">Technical</span> <a href="https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2020/trawler-metric-gathering-for-api-connect/"> <span class="post-title">Trawler - Metric gathering for API Connect</span> </a> </div> </li> </ul> https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2020/trawler-metric-gathering-for-api-connect/ Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://rickymoorhouse.uk/blog/2020/trawler-metric-gathering-for-api-connect/ <p>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.</p>