Monday, 28 April 2008

Version 0.10 has left the building

After many months of work, v0.10 has been tagged and source-/binary-RPMs and tar-balls are available.

This is a major release with many enhancements to MonAMI. Perhaps the two improvements that top the list are:
  • adaptive monitoring,
  • writing monitoring data into a database.
Some other note-worthy changes include:
  • New plugins:
  • Updates to existing plugins:
    • maui
      • support for QoS (a maui term) monitoring added,
      • added a timeout option (maui can take ages to reply sometimes).
    • Torque
      • better error handling (the library has a somewhat amusing way reporting problems),
      • enforce thread-safety (some torque library API isn't),
    • Ganglia
      • fixed gmond.conf parser,
      • transmission now less bursty (reduces likelihood of overloading gmond)
      • unicast support: sending data to just the one gmond, support for multiple gmonds (for failover in unicast deployments) pencilled in for the next release.
    • null
      • adjustable time delay (useful when playing with adaptive monitoring)
    • MySQL
      • added per-Table monitoring statistics (also can now act as a reporting plugin).
  • Other changes:
    • Added the "MonAMI by Example" tutorial (has been available from the web for a while)
    • MonAMI-core will use the recent history of a monitoring target's response time when estimating how long it future requests will take. This uses quite a nice algorithm, which responds quickly to a service suddenly taking a longer time to respond, but isn't fooled if a service responds very quickly.
    • Added per-Thread CPU profiling. This is so, if someone says "MonAMI is consuming vast amounts of CPU" we can figure out why.
    • Spring-clean of user-guide and tutorial: lots of effort has gone into this, mostly in ensuring a consistency in the typesetting. The document should look a lot nicer now and hopefully be easier to read.
You can download MonAMI from the SourceForge page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151885
or configure your YUM to download it automatically. Details are available here:
http://monami.scotgrid.ac.uk/

Enjoy!

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