Hyperic Enterprise Monitoring 1
My real job is as a Systems Specialist running one of the world’s largest retail websites. It’s a huge operation which requires a knowledge of the whole scope of today’s typical enterprise technologies. The size of the environments and breadth of scope is what keeps me interested and enthusiastic as I typically get to play with anything and everything. However, from an operations perspective, one big problem is performance monitoring and getting the metrics you need, when you need them. In the past we had a huge bunch of hacks and scripts stacked up like a house of cards, just to get a few measly bits of performance data. I was yearning for a single, supported solution that could give us wide-ranging and ‘live’ performance data on any component of our environments, whilst not creating any kind of performance overhead. continue reading »