Perl based application Monitoring

[madhu1512]

HI,

Can we monitor perl based application with Introscope?.

Thanks

[Anon Anon]

Hi Madhu,
out of the box, natively, is not possible. (yet?)
My idea is to write performance data from the Perl app to a log and use a EPA to read that log and sent the metrics to EM.

Regards,
Alexandre Andrade

[Haruhiko Davis]

why bother writing a file; just stream it to the HTTP Listener on EPA/APMIA.

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Broadcom
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[System]

Thanks Alexandre! Does this answer your qyuuestion madhu?

Chris

[WarrenPage]

Another option is to setup your EPAgent to listen on a Socket or via HTTP, and then send metrics from within you perl program using a TCP socket or HTTP call.

eg. In EPagent.properties uncomment
#################################
# EPAgent Configuration
#-----------------

# Network port on which to receive simple or XML formatted data. If commented
# out or left unconfigured then EPAgent will not listen for data.
#
#introscope.epagent.config.networkDataPort=8000

# Network port on which to listen for HTTP GET commands. If commented out or
# left unconfigured then EPAgent iwll not listen for HTTP commands
#
#introscope.epagent.config.httpServerPort=8080


Then use Perl to write to either. I will leave that to you.

[Haruhiko Davis]

I'll add my 2 cents worth and say that if you're interested in having an all-inclusive program, there are examples of how to use the default metric builder PrintMetric.pm found in <epagent_home>/lib/perl/Wily.
I use the module in all of my perl programs for EPA.

---start code block---
use FindBin;
use lib ("$FindBin::Bin", "$FindBin::Bin/lib/perl", "$FindBin::Bin/../lib/perl");
use Wily::PrintMetric;

--do some stuff here

--send metrics to epa
Wily::PrintMetric::printMetric( type => 'IntCounter',
resource => 'Device',
subresource => $device,
name => 'Reads/sec',
value => int ($deviceStats[1]),
);
---end block---

You can call PrintMetric as many times as needed depending on the number of metrics collected.

-Hiko

[madhu1512]

Thanks Alex,warren and Hiko for your suggestion. I will try to implement your suggestions and let you know i am success or not.