Re: [Ganglia-general] ganglia web to monitor apache servers?

2016-01-04 Thread Peter Phaal
I haven't used the log tailer, but in principle it should work if you configure Tomcat logging correctly. The overhead of tailing log files shouldn't be significant for low volume web sites. For high volumes, the embedded sFlow modules scale better. There are currently sFlow implementations for Ap

Re: [Ganglia-general] ganglia web to monitor apache servers?

2016-01-03 Thread Aaron
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 wrote: > Vladimir's blog has a solution that involves tailing the Apache log files: > http://vuksan.com/linux/ganglia/#Apache_Traffic_Stats > >

Re: [Ganglia-general] ganglia web to monitor apache servers?

2015-12-31 Thread Peter Phaal
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 base

Re: [Ganglia-general] ganglia web to monitor apache servers?

2015-12-31 Thread Aaron
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 wrote: > You could use a combination of Host sFlow and mod-sflow on your Apache > web servers: > http://www.sflow.net/ > https

Re: [Ganglia-general] ganglia web to monitor apache servers?

2015-12-31 Thread Peter Phaal
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 ex