When our work on the NetEye 4.47 upgrade started, one technical dependency quickly became impossible to ignore: Grafana dashboards that still relied on the legacy IDO MySQL database had to be moved to IcingaDB first. That wasn’t the interesting part, though. The interesting part was how to do it safely. These dashboards are part of…
Read MoreAmong the several plugins that Grafana provides is Node Graph, a useful plugin for visualizing elements and relationships between them. This plugin, as described in the article: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/visualizations/node-graph/ , can be used to represent: To verify its usefulness within NetEye, we adapt it to the data present in Icinga. In this POC, we import our…
Read MoreWith the introduction of Alyvix Tags in NetEye 4.38, we’ve given users the ability to filter test cases and reports based on their tags, making it easier to focus on the specific test cases that matter to each department or subdivision within a tenant. One of the requests that emerged from this new feature was…
Read MoreSome time ago, a customer asked me if it was possible to export the data used by NetEye 4 Performance Graphs to CSV format. In particular, the performance graphs that are displayed within Icinga 2’s web interface currently have no option to export their data. After some research, I found that the only way to…
Read MoreA customer with a NetEye installation to which I had added the nTop module asked me if I could integrate nTop’s Grafana Dashboards, so they could view them by consulting NetEye’s ITOA Menu. The installation and configuration of nTop for this client, a task I had already conducted some time ago, was a matter of…
Read MoreBy using DMVmonitor to analyze query metrics on an MS SQL server instance, I was able to identify a missing index in the SQL server as the root cause of why an application was starting up quite slowly. In this specific case I was working in a production environment using Microsoft’s Dynamics AX 2012 R3…
Read MoreWhenever a new monitoring project gets underway, a consultant discusses with the customer about almost any related topic: what needs to be monitored, how to monitor it, when to implement it, how to represent performance data, etc. Based on customer needs and desires, any sort of implementation strategy can be planned, but almost all of…
Read MoreIn my previous blog post, I introduced our scenario: in a private cloud context, we want to deploy a dashboard for multiple clients created using Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf for SQL performance monitoring. We saw how to write a Grafana dashboard programmatically using Jsonnet and upload it to Grafana using the Grafana API. In this…
Read MoreSay we want to monitor the disk latency of SQL Servers or other Windows Performance Counters in a private cloud context, and plot the results for users of our performance management platform who likely work in different companies. InfluxDB, Telegraf and Grafana are the right tools to achieve this, and with the power of Flux,…
Read MoreUse case: I want to deploy different dashboards for different Group Users or specific Users in NetEye4. At the following URL you can find the script: https://github.com/caragian/dashboard/tree/master/dashboard_configurator This script allows you to deploy a template dashboard to: A list of users All members of a specific AD group (LDAP) The requirements are: Python3 A user…
Read MoreWhile working with Alyvix and NetEye as a Project manager for several companies, I have found that very often simplicity can make the difference, and in my opinion this is especially true for Dashboards. It is definitely a good idea to rely on dashboards in order to make sense out of your company’s data, but…
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