Scenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Business Processes. A Business Process is an abstract view of a customer’s business from the Application point of view. Usually, it’s a collection of Icinga 2 checks aggregated by “AND, OR, At Least” logic in order to monitor whether a Business Application is really…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.35 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. NetEye 4.35 is welcoming you with a breathtaking view of the Lago di Carezza (Karersee). It is also called “Rainbow Lake”. The lake is unique as it gleams with all colors of the rainbow, which makes it a favorite destination for professional photographers and…
Read MoreBeginning with NetEye version 4.26, Alyvix has been fully integrated into NetEye. Currently Alyvix within NetEye is implemented as the neteye-alyvix module, and is part of our Application Performance Monitoring (APM) world. We have Elastic with all the functionality of traditional APM, and then for synthetic monitoring we have Alyvix. In the past few weeks…
Read MoreAfter developing a custom check for monitoring the most CPU demanding processes on Windows servers, we implemented a similar check for RAM usage. Like I described in that previous post, we built this command via PowerShell. PowerShell provides the cmdlet: Get-Counter that gets performance counter data directly from the performance monitoring instrumentation in the Windows…
Read MoreDuring my last session with a customer, I faced an interesting and challenging issue in the Windows environment. The question was: “How can I monitor the list of the most CPU-demanding processes?” The request immediately looked like one that’s very simple to understand, but hard to implement. We look for something out of the box…
Read MoreThis article stems from a project on the remote control of devices using NagVis maps. The main purpose is to find an easy way to actuate a remote device through a click on an interface. To do this, we implemented a method that uses Nagvis’ context menu by adding links. Clicking on them sends a…
Read MoreEvery now and then I like to keep you up to date about news in the ntop environment. This time it’s not news about analysis methods or software, but about a new hardware solution. If you’re someone looking for a hardware-based, scalable, optimized, and purpose-built solution, without the hassle of software installation, chances are you’re…
Read MoreSay you want to monitor logs coming into your Elasticsearch instance, and have it send data to your Monitoring Dashboard. I’ll show you how to do this with a practical example, in particular for an event coming from the Active Directory where a user is locked out, and the associated Domain Controller sends the event…
Read MoreFirst of all, I’ll briefly explain what the “Tornado” in NetEye actually is. Tornado is a Complex Event Processor that receives reports of events from data sources such as monitoring, email, and SNMP Traps, matches them against rules you’ve configured, and executes the actions associated with those rules, which can include sending notifications, logging to…
Read MoreWelcome to version 4.34 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Solution. Spring is slowly approaching and the first plants awake from their winter slumber and peek through the snow. One of the earliest to bloom is the Crocus from the family of the Iridaceae. It’s native to Europe, North Africa, and Central Asia up to…
Read MoreToday I want to present an Icinga 2-based monitoring use case where concepts of the powerful Icinga 2 DSL functional language come into play. The use case is based on mapping the status of a Host/Service Object via passive check results only. For this kind of use case, any accidental active status check could potentially…
Read MoreIndex Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies constitute a fundamental component in Elasticsearch index management. They enable users to define the life stages of an index, determining when and how specific actions, such as transitioning from a “hot” to a “cold” state or deleting obsolete indices, should occur. ILM policies empower users to ensure the optimal distribution…
Read MoreAs you may know, NetEye Cloud is our multi-tenant SaaS solution for monitoring your infrastructure. It’s crucial to us for keeping every tenant aligned with the latest configurations and patches. We’ve managed to automate and align the agents via Desired State Configuration (DSC) and Ansible, but we still had to manually check those agents’ configurations….
Read MoreDo you have a SIEM installation based on Elasticsearch (like the NetEye 4 SIEM Module) and are you sending data to it from your hosts? Then you’ll surely want to know whether your host is actually sending data, or if nothing is coming out at all. For this I made available a simple icinga/nagios plugin…
Read MoreI don’t really know the reason behind it, maybe because the typical scenario for notifications is just “send all events to this mailing list”, or as we say: set it and forget it. But we shouldn’t use this as an excuse: monitoring projects now consist of tens of thousands of objects (hosts plus services), and…
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