Monitoring tomCAT with dataDOG

Presentation from JNUC 2018, the world's largest rally of Apple IT administrators.

Session:
Monitoring tomCAT with dataDOG

Presented by:
Steven Russell, Beaverton School District
Matt Anderson, Jamf

View all session slides, recordings and more at https://www.jamf.com/events/jamf-nation-user-conference/2018/.

Transcript

2. © JAMF Software, LLC Steven Russell System Administrator Beaverton School District Matt Anderson Solutions Architect Jamf
3. © JAMF Software, LLC Overview • Why monitor your on-prem Jamf Pro servers? • How monitoring helped our school district • How to install the monitoring agents for Datadog • How to customize and configure widgets • Sharing your dashboard
4. © JAMF Software, LLC Like a human doctor, diagnosing a problem is difficult... • Being a server doctor can be just as hard, but usually less life-threatening • A doctor would need to gather as much information as possible (observe) • Interview the patient to learn about the issue (reading logs)
5. © JAMF Software, LLC Credit: Matt Groening, The Simpsons © 20th Century Fox Television Servers can be difficult to diagnose...
6. © JAMF Software, LLC Why monitor your on-prem Jamf Pro servers? • Historical data can help see performance issues over time • Seeing real-time metrics across all servers helps troubleshoot issues • Providing metric data to Jamf Support can expedite resolutions
7. © JAMF Software, LLC How monitoring helped us • Started noticing performance issues • Used monitoring tool to discover errors on the load balancer • Lead us to find out we had firewall issues We needed to add a load balancer
8. © JAMF Software, LLC Introducing Datadog Datadog is a web- based monitoring tool designed to make it easy to add agents to your hosts and monitor the services they run
9. © JAMF Software, LLC Datadog integrates with services… Including some of the most popular ones for jamfPro admins
10. © JAMF Software, LLC The price is right The best part is that Datadog has a free tier of service. For most on-prem environments, 5 hosts is enough!
11. © JAMF Software, LLC Typical Environment • mySQL server • Load balancer (haproxy, nginx, pound) • Multiple Tomcat instances Config for mid to large Jamf Pro instances
12. © JAMF Software, LLC How to set up Datadog Create an account at datadoghq.com
13. © JAMF Software, LLC Installing the agent on Ubuntu
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15. © JAMF Software, LLC Installing the agent on Windows Server
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17. © JAMF Software, LLC Setting up your Dashboard • Timeboard vs Screenboard • Screenboards are the most flexible
18. © JAMF Software, LLC Example of Timeboard
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20. © JAMF Software, LLC Example of Screenboard
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22. © JAMF Software, LLC Configuring Services for Datadog • Default agent grabs all system stats • CPU, memory, disk, IO, network • JMX (Tomcat) • mySQL • Load balancer
23. © JAMF Software, LLC Customize Widgets on Dashboard Setup JMX for monitoring Tomcat
24. © JAMF Software, LLC Customize Widgets on Dashboard Create read-only Datadog mySQL account
25. © JAMF Software, LLC Verify your services are working • Log into your Datadog account and verify your servers are calling in (this can take a few minutes)
26. © JAMF Software, LLC Widgets Creating CPU and Memory Widgets
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28. © JAMF Software, LLC Widgets Creating Memory usage widget
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30. © JAMF Software, LLC Sharing your Dashboards (Private or Public) • Give a link to Jamf Support to help them get a perspective on your environment • Share the dashboards with co-workers • Present the dashboard on TV for help desk • Link to my public dashboard: goo.gl/VFgXhC Why Share the Dashboard?
31. © JAMF Software, LLC Questions?
32. © JAMF Software, LL THANK YOU!