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Re: REST monitoring

From: Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:39:51 -0800

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:41 AM, algermissen1971 <algermissen1971_at_me.com> wrote:
> Victor,
>
> On 01 Dec, 2010,at 03:35 PM, Victor Grazi <vgrazi_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We are working on defining a REST standard for our firm and we are wondering
> if there are any third party console or other tools available for monitoring
> and managing RESTful web services. We would need to manage things as low as
> the health inidividual services and as far as monitoring and managing nodes
> in a cluster
>
>
> You basically have the full scope of HTTP Server/HTTP Intermediary
> monitoring tools at your disposal.
> What about HTTP logfile analyzers, SNMP Tools, Nagios, Cacti,... Regarding
> clustering, your app container (assuming you use one) should provide plenty
> of monitoring possibilities.

In addition, JMX is often used as the intermediate piece to pipe
statistics out of REST service (using filters, or just direct calls
from REST exposed methods), and available for monitoring systems.

-+ Tatu +-