Peter,
Would the log tailer work for tomcat as well?
Would you recommend sflow over the log tailer?
Thanks!

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Peter Phaal <peter.ph...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Vladimir's blog has a solution that involves tailing the Apache log files:
> http://vuksan.com/linux/ganglia/#Apache_Traffic_Stats
>
> The sFlow protocol packs a large number of metrics in each UDP
> datagram, so you should see a reduction in UDP datagrams per second
> associated with monitoring. The C based mod-sflow / host-sflow agents
> have a small memory and CPU footprint.
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Aaron <hawaiiaa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Peter.  Is there a way to use more a pure ganglia solution?  Will
> > sflow generate more udp traffic and/or cpu cycles?
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Peter Phaal <peter.ph...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> You could use a combination of Host sFlow and mod-sflow on your Apache
> >> web servers:
> >> http://www.sflow.net/
> >> https://github.com/sflow/mod-sflow
> >>
> >> The following article describes how to configure the head-end gmond:
> >> http://blog.sflow.com/2011/12/using-ganglia-to-monitor-web-farms.html
> >>
> >> mod-sflow also exports Apache worker pool stats to Ganglia:
> >> http://blog.sflow.com/2012/10/thread-pools.html
> >>
> >> mod-sflow also exports URL, referrer, user-agent, response time and
> >> status code information that you can use to derive metrics for each
> >> web service. You could use sFlow-RT to calculate the derived metrics
> >> and proxy them to gmetad:
> >>
> >>
> http://blog.sflow.com/2015/12/using-proxy-to-feed-metrics-into-ganglia.html
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Aaron <hawaiiaa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi, I would like to monitor linux apache servers where the apache
> >> > servers
> >> > would have gmond running, and the stats would be reported back to the
> >> > ganglia server running gmetad and ganglia web to be displayed in a
> >> > graph.
> >> > Is there a php or python script to do this?  Any recommendations?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks, Aaron
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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