Monitoring Red Hat AMQ 7 with the jmxtrans Agent

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By Roman Martin Gil

Monitoring Red Hat AMQ 7

Red Hat AMQ 7 includes some tools for monitoring the Red Hat AMQ broker. These tools allow you to get metrics about the performance and behavior of the broker and its resources. Metrics are very important for measuring performance and for identifying issues that are causing poor performance.

The following components are included for monitoring the Red Hat AMQ 7 broker:

  • Management web console that is based on Hawtio: This console includes some perspectives and dashboards for monitoring the most important components of the broker.
  • A Jolokia REST-like API: This provides full access to JMX beans through HTTP requests.
  • Red Hat JBoss Operation Network: This is an enterprise, Java-based administration and management platform for developing, testing, deploying, and monitoring Red Hat JBoss Middleware applications.

These tools are incredible and fully integrated with the original product. However, there are cases where Red Hat AMQ 7 is deployed in environments where other tools are used to monitor the broker, for example, jmxtrans.

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SystemTap’s BPF Backend Introduces Tracepoint Support

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By Aaron Merey

This blog is the third in a series on stapbpf, SystemTap’s BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) backend. In the first post, Introducing stapbpf – SystemTap’s new BPF backend, I explain what BPF is and what features it brings to SystemTap. In the second post, What are BPF Maps and how are they used in stapbpf, I examine BPF maps, one of BPF’s key components, and their role in stapbpf’s implementation.

In this post, I introduce stapbpf’s recently added support for tracepoint probes. Tracepoints are statically-inserted hooks in the Linux kernel onto which user-defined probes can be attached. Tracepoints can be found in a variety of locations throughout the Linux kernel, including performance-critical subsystems such as the scheduler. Therefore, tracepoint probes must terminate quickly in order to avoid significant performance penalties or unusual behavior in these subsystems. BPF’s lack of loops and limit of 4k instructions means that it’s sufficient for this task.

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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Load Testing Tips

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By Supannee Amnajmongkol

A large bank in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plans to develop a new mobile back-end application using microservices and container technology. They expect the platform to be able to support 10,000,000 customers with 5,000 TPS. They decided to use Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) as the runtime platform for this application. To ensure that this platform is able to support their throughput requirements and future growth rate, they have performed internal load testing with their infrastructure and mock-up services. This article will share the lessons learned load testing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

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Towards The Ruby 3×3 Performance Goal

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By Vladimir Makarov

This blog post is about my work to improve CRuby performance by introducing new virtual machine instructions and a JIT. It is loosely based on my presentation at RubyKaigi 2017 in Hiroshima, Japan.

As many Ruby people know, the author of Ruby, Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), set up a very ambitious goal for performance of CRuby version 3. Version 3 should be 3 times faster than version 2.

Koichi Sasada did a great job improving the performance of CRuby version 2 by about 3 times over version 1, by introducing a byte code virtual machine (VM). So I guess it is symbolic to set up the same goal for CRuby version 3.

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Open vSwitch-DPDK: How Much Hugepage Memory?

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By Kevin Traynor

Introduction

In order to maximize performance of the Open vSwitch DPDK datapath, it pre-allocates hugepage memory. As a user you are responsible for telling Open vSwitch how much hugepage memory to pre-allocate. The question of exactly what value to use often arises. The answer is, it depends.

There is no simple answer as it depends on things like the MTU size of the ports, the MTU differences between ports, and whether those ports are on the same NUMA node. Just to complicate things a bit more, there are multiple overheads, and alignment and rounding need to be accounted for at various places in OVS-DPDK. Everything clear? OK, you can stop reading then!
However, if not, read on.

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Create a scalable REST API with Falcon and RHSCL

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By Shane Boulden

APIs are critical to automation, integration and developing cloud-native applications, and it’s vital they can be scaled to meet the demands of your user-base. In this article, we’ll create a database-backed REST API based on the Python Falcon framework using Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL), test how it performs, and scale-out in response to a growing user-base.

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What are BPF Maps and how are they used in stapbpf

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By Aaron Merey

Compared to SystemTap’s default backend, one of stapbpf’s most distinguishing features is the absence of a kernel module runtime. The BPF machinery inside the kernel instead mostly handles its runtime. Therefore it would be very helpful if BPF provided us with a way for states to be maintained across multiple invocations of BPF programs and for userspace programs to be able to communicate with BPF programs. This is accomplished by BPF maps. In this blog post, I will introduce BPF maps and explain their role in stapbpf’s implementation.

What are BPF maps?

BPF maps are essentially generic data structures consisting of key/value pairs. They are created from userspace using the BPF system call, which returns a file descriptor for the map. The key size and value size are specified by the user, allowing for the storage of key/value pairs with arbitrary types. Once a map is created, elements can be accessed from userspace using the BPF system call. Maps are automatically deallocated once the user process that created the map terminates (although it is possible to force the map to persist longer than this process). Stapbpf uses the following function to create new BPF maps.

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Introducing stapbpf – SystemTap’s new BPF backend

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By Aaron Merey

SystemTap 3.2 includes an early prototype of SystemTap’s new BPF backend (stapbpf). It represents a first step towards leveraging powerful new tracing and performance analysis capabilities recently added to the Linux kernel. In this post, I will compare the translation process of stapbpf with the default backend (stap) and compare some differences in functionality between these two backends.

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Profiling NodeJS applications with Linux Performance Tools

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By Cesar Valdez

Using Linux Perf Tools

The Performance Analysis Tool for Linux (perf) is a powerful tool to profile applications. It works by using a mix of hardware counters (is fast) and software counters, all provided by the Linux Performance Counter (LPC) subsystem that takes charge of the complex task of wrapping the CPU counters for the different type of CPUs. So you can have access to a very efficient way to get information of running processes through their C API or a convenient command in this case (perf).

This command gives you access to a great variety of system and process level events but in this entry, I will use it to investigate CPU bounded issues.  

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