Hi all, this vote passed with only +1.
I will push my latest changes on the github, request the git repo to INFRA (to push there and remove the github one), and create a component in Jira.
Thanks all for your vote. Regards JB On 10/14/2014 05:12 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote:
Hi all, First of all, sorry for this long e-mail ;) Some weeks ago, I blogged about the usage of ELK (Logstash/Elasticsearch/Kibana) with Karaf, Camel, ActiveMQ, etc to provide a monitoring dashboard (know what's happen in Karaf and be able to store it for a long period): http://blog.nanthrax.net/2014/03/apache-karaf-cellar-camel-activemq-monitoring-with-elk-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana/ If this solution works fine, there are some drawbacks: - it requires additional middlewares on the machines. Additionally to Karaf itself, we have to install logstash, elasticsearch nodes, and kibana console - it's not usable "out of the box": you need at least to configure logstash (with the different input/output plugins), kibana (to create the dashboard that you need) - it doesn't cover all the monitoring needs, especially in term of SLA: we want to be able to raise some alerts depending of some events (for instance, when a regex is match in the log messages, when a feature is uninstalled, when a JMX metric is greater than a given value, etc) Actually, Karaf (and related projects) already provides most (all) data required for the monitoring. However, it would be very helpful to have a "glue", ready to use and more user friendly, including a storage of the metrics/monitoring data. Regarding this, I started a prototype of a monitoring solution for Karaf and the applications running in Karaf. The purpose is to be very extendible, flexible, easy to install and use. In term of architecture, we can find the following component: 1/ Collectors & SLA Policies The collectors are services responsible of harvesting monitoring data. We have two kinds of collectors: - the polling collectors are invoked by a scheduler periodically. - the event driven collectors react to some events. Two collectors are already available: - the JMX collector is a polling collector which harvest all MBeans attributes - the Log collector is a event driven collector, implementing a PaxAppender which react when a log message occurs We can planned the following collectors: - a Camel Tracer collector would be an event driven collector, acting as a Camel Interceptor. It would allow to trace any Exchange in Camel. It's very dynamic (thanks to OSGi services), so it's possible to add a new custom collector (user/custom implementation). The Collectors are also responsible of checking the SLA. As the SLA policies are tight to the collected data, it makes sense that the collector validates the SLA and call/delegate the alert to SLA services. 2/ Scheduler The scheduler service is responsible to call the Polling Collectors, gather the harvested data, and delegate to the dispatcher. We already have a simple scheduler (just a thread), but we can plan a quartz scheduler (for advanced cron/trigger configuration), and another one leveraging the Karaf scheduler. 3/ Dispatcher The dispatcher is called by the scheduler or the event driven collectors to dispatch the collected data to the appenders. 4/ Appenders The appender services are responsible to send/store the collected data to target systems. For now, we have two appenders: - a log appender which just log the collected data - a elasticsearch appender which send the collected data to a elasticsearch instance. For now, it uses "external" elasticsearch, but I'm working on an elasticsearch feature allowing to embed elasticsearch in Karaf (it's mostly done). We can plan the following other appenders: - redis to send the collected data in Redis messaging system - jdbc to store the collected data in a database - jms to send the collected data to a JMS broker (like ActiveMQ) - camel to send the collected data to a Camel direct-vm/vm endpoint of a route (it would create an internal route) 5/ Console/Kibana The console is composed by two parts: - a angularjs or bootstrap layer allowing to configure the SLA and global settings - embedded kibana instance with pre-configured dashboard (when the elasticsearch appender is used). We will have a set of already created lucene queries and a kind of "Karaf/Camel/ActiveMQ/CXF" dashboard template. The kibana instance will be embedded in Karaf (not external). Of course, we have ready to use features, allowing to very easily install modules that we want. I named the prototype Karaf Decanter. I don't have preference about the name, and the location of the code (it could be as Karaf subproject like Cellar or Cave, or directly in the Karaf codebase). Thoughts ? Regards JB
-- Jean-Baptiste Onofré [email protected] http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com
