We're using a combination of things at work. Sensu when alerts are needed and graphite/statsd for collecting, displaying, monitoring metrics. Statsd's pretty powerful, and graphite does the job as far as powering dashboards (there are some alternatives though).
More specifically: 1) java.lang.management._ + statsd -- an actor schedules itself at the rate we need to report heap size and gc time. We also monitor sub-jvm system stats in statsd using diamond. 2) Statsd, ad-hoc as needed. Mailbox size isn't really accessible, and trying to monitor it is discouraged ( http://letitcrash.com/post/17707262394/why-no-mailboxsize-in-akka-2). Instead you can monitor time between the message being sent from one actor and worked on by another (by injecting timestamps in the message), or you can monitor all requests and see if there's a time lag between reducing the load on the sender and a corresponding reduction appearing on the receiver (while it chews through its mailbox). However if you monitor message count and various timings, especially if you measure timing for specific components and compare them, you can generally see bottlenecks pretty clearly. 3) Statsd again. We use it a ton. And since the client is nio/udp and supports sampling, we never see a problem with overhead. The worst you'll see is strange graphs if you overload graphite itself. You're very welcome to try our statsd client. It's on github at github.com/hootsuite/statsd-client . It's pretty much a wrapper around etsy's client with some scala niceties and typesafe config. It's missing some examples but is pretty straightforward (see https://github.com/hootsuite/statsd-client/blob/master/src/main/scala/com/hootsuite/statsd/StatsdReporting.scala ) Would always love to hear of better solutions! I've heard vague rumours typesafe are working on something for production. Cheers, Edd On 26 March 2014 11:48, Chris Toomey <[email protected]> wrote: > Are any of you folks in this group running production Akka systems, and if > so, which of the following classes of metrics are you collecting and > monitoring? > > 1) Generic JVM metrics > > 2) Generic Akka metrics (mailbox sizes, message rates, etc.) > > 3) Application-specific metrics > > If you're collecting/monitoring generic Akka metrics, how are you doing it? > > If you're not, is it because 1) and 3) are sufficient, or because you've > not found a good way to do 2)? > > Thanks for any guidance. > > Chris > > > On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 7:25:38 AM UTC-7, Chris Toomey wrote: >> >> We're developing our first Akka application and are thus new to the >> larger ecosystem. I've spent the last hour or so searching for Akka >> monitoring tools but haven't come across much of anything as far as >> production monitoring tools. I see that Typesafe Console is aimed at >> development time and not recommended for production usage, and I've seen a >> few things on github, but that's about it. >> >> What tools are folks using or would you recommend using to monitor >> production Akka applications for Akka-specific metrics like message rates, >> mailbox sizes, actor counts, etc.? >> >> thx, >> Chris >> >> -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
