monitoring

Application to watch what an executable does?

Hello I need to find out exactly what files/directories a Lua program uses so I can try to only pack what it needs into a ZIP file, and come up with a simple way to deploy this script. I used SysInternals' Process Monitor, but I'm surprised by the small amount of information it returned while it watched the program (For Lua users out t...

PyQt: How to Know Progress of a Process Running background

Hello there. Im in real confusion with the ProgressBar mechanisms. However now i need help on this "Can we know the percentage completion or time remaining of completion of a Process, that has been initiated from a Qt interface like this ` self.process = QProcess() self.connect(self.process, SIGNAL("readyReadStdout()"), self.re...

What are the options in open source world for application lifecycle, fault and performance monitoring for .Net applications?

Hello. What are my options in open source world for application lifecycle, fault and performance monitoring for .Net applications? A good commercial benchmark for my need is Avicode (http://www.avicode.com) So, is there an equivalent for Avicode? ...

Delphi. How to monitor URLs being downloaded by IE?

When you're opening page in IE it downloads lots of files, including CSS, scripts, pictures, SWFs, etc. I need to develop small plugin which will monitor all these URLs and let's say save to file this list. I need it in Delphi, but any example in any other programming languages will be really appreciated. ...

Tomcat admin tools?

I've worked with WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, and other app servers in the past. Now, I'm working on an app that will be deployed using Tomcat 6.x. While I prefer using the command line or XML config files, there are times when a good administrative console comes in handy. I've looked at the admin console that Tomcat comes with and fou...

Protecting melody monitoring with acegi in grails

Hi, I have a Grails 1.2 app secured with acegi that I'm monitoring with the melody plugin for grails. I need to protect the url so only the "admin" role can access it but I'm having trouble with it - the rest of the acegi rules work just fine. In the BootStrap, I set def secureReqMap = new Requestmap(url: '/monitoring/**', configAttr...

What is the optimal way to monitor changes in a directory with a kqueue()?

OK: I'm implementing File Sharing in an iPhone OS app, and of course this means filesystem monitoring. Yay! Basically, the OS copies and/or deletes from and to a directory I can access when the user manipulates files into my app's section in iTunes. Thus, I need to monitor the directory for changes presumably via an efficient mechanism ...

Can you suspend a Java app and get a snapshot of it's threads from within the app?

I'm looking at writing monitoring code that runs inside a Java application and periodically takes a snapshot of running threads and displays some call stack information on each. Ideally this would be extended for profiling and/or monitoring. I don't want to use an external tool, as this is for self educational purposes. ...

Monitoring application to monitor a Java desktop application performance

Hey, I have a Java desktop application I wrote, and I would like a recommendation about a monitoring application that can spot bottlenecks in the code and real time memory consumptions. As I was developing for J2Me, the WTK then, had a memory monitor, and I found it really useful, I would like to know which monitoring program you think...

Rails: How can I log all requests which take more than 4s to execute?

I have a web app hosted in a cloud environment which can be expanded to multiple web-nodes to serve higher load. What I need to do is to catch this situation when we get more and more HTTP requests (assets are stored remotely). How can I do that? The problem I see from this point of view is that if we have more requests than mongrel cl...

Monitoring a Apache Karaf/OSGi application via SNMP

We are building OSGi (particularly using Apache Karaf on Equinox) applications that need to be delivered into customer environments that commonly employ SNMP based monitoring tools. Can anyone suggest a cost effective (Open source is ideal, but has to use a license that we can ship as part of our commercial offering) framework/package th...

What to monitor on SQL Server

Hi all I have been asked to monitor SQL Server (2005 & 2008) and am wondering what are good metrics to look at? I can access WMI counters but am slightly lost as to how much depth is going to be useful. Currently I have on my list: user connections logins per second latch waits per second total latch wait time dead locks per second ...

How to see live stats of website performance (IIS7)?

In task manager, I am only able to see the resources w3wp.exe is using, but this is too vague. Can I see the resources each website and app pool is using? Would also be nice if I can see what pages are taking up the most resources (all in real-time). Does anything exist like this? ...

few questions about distributed monitoring and logging System

i want to develop a distributed monitoring and logging System on various remote Server for windows and sqlServer events that occurred like status of databases(online or offline),status of sqlserver Agent,anti-virus update,status of dyndns updater(we use for remote connection) and so on i choose Log4net framework But i haven't any experim...

I need aliveness test library for HTTP Servers

Hello, I'm writing a monitor service for our EC2 based cluster, it task will be [connect via HTTP/S to our events servers each X(ms), verify they are alive, rest]. I need a toolkit that will be able to perform the Connect test itself and report success or failure. I've tried to do this with Apache HTTPClient but I'm getting too many fa...

linux inotify - determine users for the triggered events

I am trying to figure out how to determine the user which triggered a specific event when monitoring some files with inotify. Is that even possible? Does the inotify_event structure has something like this? ...

server health monitoring JMX

hi all. i want to write a server health monitoring tool. i want to a tool that periodically check server's availability and alert when any problems has occurred.i searched on google and noticed that i colud use JMX for my case. but when i read JMX documentation, i have confused. so i need help about how to do this. for example a tool t...

How do i monitor a directory creation on linux using ruby and get notified via email

so lets say i have a pre existing directories /source/version/1 , /source/version/2, /source/version/3 I want to monitor if there is a NEW directory created /source/version/4, and send an email if such directory is indeed created. ...

log analysis for rails

i have a rails app which makes heavy use of activeresource and httparty to make api calls. Is there any library/extension to log the requests and parse them, so that log analysis becomes easier and automated. RailsLogAnalyser is good but what about extra calls, what are the conventions? Something like a opensource/self-hosted alte...

C# Monitor Programs Periodically Based on PID

Thank you in advance for you ideas and input. I would like to periodically check to see if a third party program is currently running on a user's system from my program. I am currently launching the program as follows in C#: String plinkConString = ""; // my connection string Process plink = Process.Start(utilityPath + ...