Archive for the ‘Solaris’ Category

Solaris Performance Primer: Introduction

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

This web log will is the start of a small series of Solaris performance monitoring tools. We are going to present freely available tools from Solaris, the Tools CD and the DTrace toolkit.This blog will help the upatient ones who want to solve 90% of the day to day performance ...

Roll Your Own SiteScope, a Simple Alternative

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

In working with SiteScope of late, I’ve found that it doesn’t always collect performance metrics the way I want to. More importantly, it can often turn a simple monitoring activity into a complex disaster. Take monitoring via JMX for example. In SiteScope, it has a rather complicated (and sometimes broken) ...