Konard, Thanks again.
-comments inline. On Friday, 8 August 2014 00:43:42 UTC+5:30, Akka Team wrote: > > I want to deploy the same App in Amazon Cloud EC2 instances. Also how to >> get this app auto scaling in amazon. I ran through web but did not find any >> good articles which could explain this step by step. Waiting for help in >> this regard. >> > That's more of an EC2 question than it is an akka one. > AFAIR EC2 provides so called auto scaling groups, which start new > instances of an image based on load in the group. > Simply make such apps start the akka app and join the akka cluster and > you're ready to spread out your load. > [*Prakhyat*] The query is not specific to Amazon. I want to understand > how deployment of akka cluster in amazon ec2 is different from deploying > locally. Do configurations,setup or any other parameters change while > running cluster in amazon? I did not get any such points shared over net. > Also akka cluster based app requires auto scaling, what are the criteria > or triggering point to consider? I know memory,cpu etc are starting few > conisderation points, but apart from this what are the other > considerations? and also how to scale with these? > > > >> There are no good open source simple to setup tools. >> > I do find Kamon pretty good, for the time being. > We'll soon introduce a new Tracing SPI, then such tools will become even > better and with less overhead. > [*Prakhyat*] When can we expect Tracing SPI? Is it already available for > trying out locally? > > I tried latest app dynamics, was lucky it can monitor/profile/trace akka's >> asynchronous calls. But tool is short of providing below information, >> > Feel free to ping them with this feedback :-) > The app dynamics team is actively working on it as far as we know :-) > [*Prakhyat*]I have already contacted App Dynamics team and shared this > points. Lets look forward :) for updates. > > There are tools like Kamon/Datadog but they have dependency on other tools >> like StatsD,Graphite etc, which are complex to setup. >> > Well, all data collection tools will have such dependencies. In case of > App Dynamics / New Relic > And monitoring distributed systems itself is a full time job sometimes... > (all the infra work etc). > [Prakhyat] I agree to you. > > Let me know simple ways to monitor akka cluster based apps. Also how to >> monitor akka cluster based apps in Amazon. >> > If you want simple monitoring tools then go for SaaS offerings. They need > the least "ops" work from your side. > > I personally have monitored apps with: nagios / zabbix + ganglia / > graphite / statsd and a recent dashboard discovery: graphana (only UI), > and a team I knew was super happy with kibana (that's for logs mostly > AFAIK) as well as home grown solutions... > And well, apps monitoring is not an easy task by itself IMO. We hope to > enable better tools soon via the upcoming Tracing SPI, but again – it will > be libraries and aggregation tools that you have to run somewhere. > [Prakhyat]What annoys me is the long list of software's required to just > monitor a simple akka cluster app. I am was looking for one single tool > which is simple to setup and integrate with app. The problem with these > long list is each is difficult to setup and integration is another > nightmare. Zabbix we too use but to monitor hardware only. I am > specifically looking at monitoring akka actors. > > Just googled on Tracing SPI and found this https://github.com/levkhomich/akka-tracing. Don't how it will fare, planning on evaluating this. But if I use this api, what option of aggregation tools I have? -- konrad > > -- > Akka Team > Typesafe - The software stack for applications that scale > Blog: letitcrash.com > Twitter: @akkateam > -- >>>>>>>>>> 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.
