Just for all you folks who couldn’t make it out to MAX - here’s a peek at what Scorpio may be offering up for server monitoring. This is the presentation I gave at MAX, with voice over, but missing, alas, the live demos. It may take a little time to load because of all the audio, so do be patient.
Unlocking the ColdFusion Server Black Box
Take a look, and leave comments here in case you think there’s anything big that we’re missing.
Disclaimer: This feature is still under development and is subject to change. Consider this presentation to be a just a preview of something that may make it into Scorpio.
Dan G. Switzer, II | 08-Nov-06 at 2:43 pm | Permalink
Thanks for posting this. It’s very helpful for those of us who were unable to attend MAX this year.
Brandon Harper | 08-Nov-06 at 5:48 pm | Permalink
Thanks for posting, Ashwin– definitely good information.
A couple of things I noticed–
1. There doesn’t seem to be a feature to kill hung threads automagically which in my experience are the biggest reason that servers become unresponsive (at least in the applications I work with). Basically the hung threads start stacking up over time until there are no threads available to process requests– in particular this seems to happen with flaky database drivers and other 3rd party service calls which do not return results. Have you guys thought about creating something that will kill hung threads over x seconds old, etc?
2. This looks great on a per server level, but is there anything that allows you to monitor/administer many servers in an enterprise from one spot, or is this just on an individual server basis?
Mike Kear | 08-Nov-06 at 5:55 pm | Permalink
What provisions are there for site owners to get a look at some of the information about their sties in a shared environment?
Obviously, if you own one or more sites on a shared box, you shouldnt expect to get rights to see the monitoring of the whole server, but some of those templates would be very useful at a site level - the query performance stuff, the request performance stuff.
Is there any provision for shared hosting performance monitoring at the site level?
ashwin | 09-Nov-06 at 6:30 am | Permalink
@Dan, my pleasure.
@Brandon, @Mike, all good ideas that we have talked about. I’ll pass on your feedback.
Diarmuid King | 17-Nov-06 at 8:37 pm | Permalink
Hi Ashwin,
Great presentation. I cant wait to get my hands on the monitor. It will be amazingly useful to get such a clear window into the running processes in production.
Thanks,
Diarmuid
ashwin | 18-Nov-06 at 11:56 am | Permalink
Thanks, Diarmuid!
Umer Farooq | 06-Dec-06 at 6:16 pm | Permalink
Sweet! can’t wait for this… Any chance of seeing some of the image manipulation functionality.
Sana | 04-Mar-07 at 5:22 pm | Permalink
Hi,
I think the link does not work,
http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/downloads/max2006preso/
Have a look, If this works then let me know.
Thanks
Ashwin | 05-Mar-07 at 6:03 am | Permalink
Thanks for calling that out, Sana - I had some problems with my blog over the weekend, had to rebuild it, and missed the presentation. It’s up now.