Dec 12
Apache Solr is an open source enterprise search service from the Lucene project. Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server within a servlet container such as Tomcat.
Like any service or component in your architecture, you’ll want to monitor it to ensure that it’s available and gather performance data to help with tuning.
In this post, we’ll look at how we can monitor Solr, what performance metrics we might want to gather and how we can easily achieve this with Opsview.
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Tagged with: agentless checks • apache solr • JMX • Lucene • Nagios • nrpe • Opsview
Feb 02
This post is going to explore how we can raise application alarms from Grails applications into an enterprise monitoring solution such as Opsview. These are known as Passive checks, as opposed to Active checks where Opsview is actively polling to check the state of a service.
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Tagged with: Grails • jalarm • java • Opsview
Jan 18
There are a number of ways you can monitor the progress of your Grails build: using the Hudson / Jenkins web app; or leveraging the API: from your IDE, bespoke API clients or even your enterprise monitoring client. We’ll look at all of them here and build a simple Grails taglib to display build status in the ‘Application Status’ panel.
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Tagged with: Grails • Hudson • jenkins • Opsview
Sep 10
Since Grails incorporated the testing plugin into core it provides good unit & integration testing support (via the test-app script). There are also additional plugins to support BDD tools (e.g. EasyB) and functional testing (e.g. Canoo WebTest).
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Tagged with: Development • Grails • Hudson
Sep 10
Ok, so you’ve decided that you want to use Hudson to build your Grails projects (or have read part 1 and want to use CodeNarc too). If you don’t know where to start, you’ve come to the right place.
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Tagged with: development frameworks • Grails • Hudson
Aug 26
The first part of a series of posts on Grails and Hudson leading up to a presentation at the London Groovy & Grails User Group. Subsequent instalments will include testing (unit, integration, functional), test coverage, automatic war deployment and monitoring Hudson with Opsview Enterprise.
Tagged with: CodeNarc • Development • Grails • Hudson • java
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