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07. 08. 2023 Alessandro Romboli Business Service Monitoring, ITOA, NetEye

From Icinga 2 Monitoring to ITOA

Scenario NetEye 4 is a comprehensive monitoring platform which natively supports Icinga 2 checks on remote hosts and devices. Several Icinga 2 checks support an historical view of the status. An example is the firewall interface performance status below, which displays a Performance Graph: Getting a better overview All the graph data generated by the…

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09. 06. 2023 Giuseppe Di Garbo ITOA, NetEye

Monitoring, Collection of Metrics and Dashboard of the NetEye Database

As you all know NetEye uses MariaDB as its database. With the nep-monitoring-core module of the NetEye Extension Packs (NEP), the following aspects of MariaDB are monitored: These checks are performed with a default time interval (check_interval) of 180s. To have real time control of many aspects of the MariaDB database operation, I suggest installing…

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03. 10. 2022 Davide Gallo ITOA, NetEye

Using Multiple Retention Policies in InfluxDB

By default all metrics in InfluxDB are stored forever, but for certain metrics we need to store them for a much shorter time span. One example is when we’re receiving very large amounts of raw data, when we’re much more interested in derived characteristics of that raw data. In this blog we’ll discuss how to…

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29. 12. 2021 Giuseppe Di Garbo ITOA, NetEye

Business Processes and Dashboards

The Business Process module is one of the most useful modules in NetEye, but it’s often underestimated. A Business Process offers a way to model relations between monitored objects by NetEye (host and services), allowing you to model applications or infrastructures. They also allow you to drill down into the details, from high-level services to…

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19. 09. 2021 Rocco Pezzani ITOA, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

Understanding Instability in a Monitored Environment

Whenever 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…

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31. 03. 2020 Stefano Bruno ITOA, NetEye

Take Care of Your Data: InfluxDB Sanitization

InfluxDB is the database used in NetEye for saving performance data. It guarantees graphic visibility of the data (thanks to the Grafana frontend) and it is very important that the data stored is useful. I’ll give you an example of how simple it can be to produce obsolete data in Influx: Suppose I create a…

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17. 02. 2017 Susanne Greiner NetEye

Grafana Dashboard Tuning: aussagekräftige Informationen statt einem Haufen Daten

Grafana und InfluxDB sind jetzt in unsere IT System Management Lösung NetEye integriert. Diese Entscheidung wurde hauptsächlich getroffen, weil Grafana & InfluxDB in Kombination einen sehr hohen Grad an Flexibilität und Anpassung bieten. Neben dem Log Management, Inventory & Asset Management, Business Service Management und weiteren, bietet NetEye nun auch ein IT Operations Analytics Modul….

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17. 02. 2017 Susanne Greiner NetEye

How to Tune Your Grafana Dashboards

Grafana and InfluxDB have been integrated to our IT System Management solution NetEye. This step was motivated by the high flexibility and variability offered by the combination of the two open source tools. Besides modules such as Log Management, Inventory & Asset Management, Business Service Management and many others, NetEye now offers also an IT Operations…

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17. 02. 2017 Susanne Greiner NetEye

Linee guida per l’ottimizzazione delle dashboard di Grafana

Recentemente Grafana e InfluxDB sono stati integrati nella nostra soluzione di IT System Management NetEye. Questa decisione è motivata dai elevati livelli di flessibilità e varietà offerte dalla combinazione di questi due strumenti open source. Oltre a Log Management, Inventory & Asset Management, Business Service Management e altri, ora NetEye offre anche un modulo IT Operations Analytics….

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