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81 lines
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<h1>Help</h1>
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This page describes how to use this tool.
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<h2>Why not use one of the existing monitoring tools?</h2>
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There are many tools out there that do monitoring in one way or the other. There are complete closed source solutions like
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<a href="https://newrelic.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">New Relic</a>,
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<a href="https://www.splunk.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Splunk</a>
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and <a href="https://www.appdynamics.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">App Dynamics</a>.
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They bring everything you need, a tool to collect logs or metrics, a database, a UI with dashboards and alerting.
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The OSS community likes to break them down into separate tools.
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For example the <a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/elastic-stack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">ELK</a>-stack
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consists of <a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Elasticsearch</a>
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as database and <a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Kibana</a>
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as the UI. It is usually combined with <a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Logstash</a>
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or <a href="https://www.elastic.co/de/beats/filebeat" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Filebeat</a>
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for logfile collection.</p>
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Another popular UI is <a href="https://grafana.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Grafana</a>
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which can be combined with
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<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/loki/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Loki</a>,
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<a href="https://prometheus.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Prometheus</a>,
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<a href="https://graphiteapp.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Graphite</a> or
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<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/metrictank/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Metrictank</a> (which is an engine for Graphite).
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Newer and popular for its good database is the duo <a href="https://www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">InfluxDB</a>
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+ <a href="https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/chronograf/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Chronograf</a>.
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Apart from the general purpose solutions there are also more specialized tools. For example
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<a href="https://www.nagios.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Nagios</a>/<a href="https://icinga.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Icinga</a>
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which specializes in hardware monitoring.
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<br/><br/>
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<a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Kibana</a> (<a href="https://www.elastic.co/products/elastic-stack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">ELK</a>),
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<a href="https://www.appdynamics.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">App Dynamics</a>,
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<a href="https://graphiteapp.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Graphite</a>
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(<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/metrictank/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Metrictank</a>),
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<a href="https://prometheus.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Prometheus</a>,
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<a href="https://grafana.com/oss/loki/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Loki</a>,
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<a href="https://grafana.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Grafana</a>,
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<a href="https://www.solarwinds.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Solarwinds</a>
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<a href="https://github.com/Netflix/atlas" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Netflix Atlas</a>,
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<a href="https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">RRDtool</a>,
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<a href="http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Ganglia</a>,
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<a href="https://www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">InfluxDB</a>
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+ <a href="https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/chronograf/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Chronograf</a>,
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<a href="http://opentsdb.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">OpenTSDB</a>,
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<a href="https://www.nagios.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Nagios</a>/<a href="https://icinga.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Icinga</a>,
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<a href="https://sentry.io/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Sentry</a>,
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<a href="https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Heka</a>,
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<a href="https://bosun.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Bosun</a>,
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<a href="https://www.wavefront.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Wavefront</a>,
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<a href="https://www.instana.com/supported-technologies/dropwizard/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Dropwizard</a>,
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<a href="https://druid.apache.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Druid.io</a>,
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<a href="https://bleemeo.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Bleemo</a>,
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<a href="https://www.site24x7.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Site24x7</a>,
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<a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Datadog</a>,
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<a href="https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/sitescope-application-monitoring/overview" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">Sitescope</a>,
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<a href="https://www.signalfx.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="external-link">SignalFX</a>,
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and many more. None of them provides the visualizations we had in mind. We wanted to plot each value of the time series data individually, so that we can identify the
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response times of a single request. But tools like Splunk, Kibana, Chronograf or Grafana only plot aggregated data (average, min/max, percentiles).
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<p>
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