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Performance Monitoring
and Stress Tests
How to get a stable system
Sarah Julia Kriesch
AdaLovelace@opensuse.org
Overview
• About me
• Performance Monitoring
• Stress Tests
• Tools for Performance Monitoring
• jmeter
• Action
• questions
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About me
• 2009 – 2012 education: Computer Science Expert
(System Integration)
• 2012 – 2014 Junior Linux System Administrator
(1&1 Internet AG – Monitoring & Infrastructure)
• 2014 – 2016 Systems Engineer & ITO Coordinator
(BrandMaker)
• since June 2016 DevOps Engineer
(prolead technologies)
• since 2013 openSUSE Member
(wiki, translation, Advocate, conferences)
• since 2013 GUUG Member
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Performance Monitoring
• Performance Tuning
• watching systems and the load during high speed
time
• SaaS, local, remote available
• different tools for different situations
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Stress Tests
• Testing systems for Performance Tuning
• Improvement of stability of systems
• Finding bugs
• Tool jmeter
Don't use it on live systems!
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Performance Monitoring Tools
Gomez
• Monitoring for big
environments
• systems with many
cusomers
• Pro:
‒ Monitoring all the time
‒ Simulation of user actions
‒ Reportings about the user
performance everywhere
on the world
• Contra:
‒ very expensive
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Munin
• Performance Monitoring
for applications
• web application
• using JMX-Port
• Pro:
‒ Monitoring of different
servers
‒ all data on one place
‒ good overview
• Contra:
‒ For details in seconds other
tools
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jconsole
• Monitoring of
applications
• using JMX port
• integrated in Java
package on the client
• Pro:
‒ details in seconds
‒ good plugins
• Contra:
‒ Monitoring starts after
starting tool on client
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RHQ Plugin
• Java Monitoring (JBoss)
by RedHat
• Plugin for Nagios/ Icinga
• Pro:
‒ Integratable into the
monitoring system
• Contra:
‒ You'll get wrong data!
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Jolokia plugin by Roland Huss
• Java Monitoring
• JMX4Perl
• Plugin for Nagios/ Icinga
• something like jconsole
in Nagios/ Icinga
• JMX4Perl
• Pro:
‒ Integratable into the
monitoring system
• Contra:
‒ additional software
necessary for the server
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prometheus
• own monitoring system
• Performance Monitoring
integrated
• choosing and adding
checks like you want to
have
• flexibility
• Pro:
‒ good live data
‒ easy handling for admins
• Contra:
‒ Difficult installation and
configuration
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htop
• graphical output of atop
• not in standard repostories
• http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/monitoring/
• Pro:
‒ really good overview of the load
‒ Good overview of processes
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Stress Tests
jmeter
• Apache project
• Pinging the server from
the client
• best practice:
‒ teamwork
‒ use cluster ssh
‒ 1/ 2 guys are using the
application
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Links
●Gomez:
http://www.ca.com/de/products/ca-application-performance-manag
ement.html
●Munin: http://munin-monitoring.org/
●jconsole:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/managemen
t/jconsole.html
●RHQ: https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/RHQ/Home
●Jolokia: https://jolokia.org/tutorial.html
●prometheus: https://prometheus.io/
● Jmeter:http://jmeter.apache.org/
●Jmeter video training:
http://info.blazemeter.com/jmeter-training-course?utm_sour
ce=BM&utm_medium=BM_blog&utm_campaign=5_Ways_to_Launch_blo
g
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this”
- Name
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