Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for June 29th through July 17th:

• Why is Performance Monitoring so hard? – brettdargan.com – To keep it simple lets categorize them like this:

  * Current State – Instantaneous State based
  * Alerting
  * Historical Stats
  * Trace (System > Component > Request) ~ Vertical Profiling through technologies
  * Profiling – usually technology focused, like Java Profiling
  * Vital Signs

  These have varying levels of intrusiveness; stickiness and probability of working when needed. They also have varying stakeholders, users, requirements, permissions that = red tape that slows you down when you most need the information.

• What do I do for a Living? – Step 4: Correlation & Enrichment | A Monitoring Odyssey… –
• Efficient Services: RapidInsight: Open source Netcool Alternative? – RI is an alternative and a complimenting product to Netcool. Visit below link in case planning/scoping/analysing the roadmap from Netcool