Re: [Ganglia-general] Gauges verses counters

2014-03-18 Thread neil mckee
FYI, Ganglia already understands the output from this alternative JMX monitoring solution: https://code.google.com/p/jmx-sflow-agent/ I think it has similar properties to embedded-jmxtrans. Much better to have the JVM push the stats every 20 seconds or so than have to poll for them remotely

Re: [Ganglia-general] Gauges verses counters

2014-03-18 Thread Silver, Jonathan
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] Gauges verses counters FYI, Ganglia already understands the output from this alternative JMX monitoring solution: https://code.google.com/p/jmx-sflow-agent/ I think it has similar properties to embedded-jmxtrans. Much better to have the JVM

[Ganglia-general] Gauges verses counters

2014-03-13 Thread Silver, Jonathan
We are planning on using jmxtrans to collect and propagate a number of metrics to ganglia. There is no place in jmxtrans to define the metric as a counter or a gauge. If we do NOT predefine the metric in rrds, what will happen? What will show on the graphs? How does ganglia know that it's a