If you’re familiar with the NetEye SIEM module you probably also know El Proxy, the solution integrated into NetEye to ensure the integrity and inalterability of the logs produced by the SIEM module. Since its introduction in NetEye, the only way to understand what El Proxy was doing was to inspect its logs, but as…
Read MoreBy 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…
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 MoreWhen I’m running a service which processes a lot of data, sooner or later I start to wonder: what is the service doing? What data is it processing? This also applies to our event processor Tornado. For the Tornado Engine, the administrator may wonder for example how many events Tornado is receiving, how many actions…
Read MoreDuring the NetEye User Group in November 2019, I presented the future vision of a new, completely distributed architecture to allow more flexibility, performance and scalability. In particular, a more flexible and scalable architecture is helpful for large environments such as Managed Service Provider infrastructures or for monitoring solutions as a service (i.e., NetEye 4…
Read MoreNetEye is a constantly evolving solution that allows you to monitor the status of heterogeneous objects and collect metrics from different sources. Properly correlated, this data can become an important source of information for your business. With the 4.13 release we added an important tool that allows you to manage data: we upgraded InfluxDB to…
Read MoreInfluxDB 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…
Read MoreScenario JBoss Application Server (JBoss AS) is an open-source, cross-platform Java application server developed by JBoss, a division of Red Hat, Inc. JBoss AS is an open-source implementation of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) that is used for implementing Java applications and other Web-based applications. Being a Java web-based application, it’s important to keep it…
Read MoreWithin Internet provider companies, very often we are asked to calculate the amount of Internet bandwidth in order to bill any excess use of bandwidth to each customer. We decided to make this calculation completely customizable using NetEye together with the built-in tools Icinga2, InfluxDB and Grafana. Phase 1 Using an SNMP check, we measure…
Read MoreAs did for the last year edition, our DevOps team participated at InfluxDays, a conference organized by InfluxData and focused on time series data. We were really looking at the event with excitement, for all the new features InfluxData is putting into the new InfluxDB 2.0. So, apart from grabbing a very nice t-shirt, we…
Read MoreIf you’ve ever had cardinality problems with InfluxDB, you might have discovered that a tag is the likely culprit. Well done! But now your next step is getting rid of that tag, and that’s when you’ll realize that in a time series database, tags play an important role in indexing. Because dropping tags is rather complicated,…
Read MoreBefore making decisions it’s good practice to gather data. Important data, I should say. In this post I will propose how to use Telegraf to gather that data. Telegraf is open source software that allows you to gather raw data (metrics) from your configured plugins and then forward them to the destination of your choice…
Read MoreGrafana 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….
Read MoreGrafana 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…
Read MoreRecentemente 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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