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Tuesday 4 March 2014

Pivotal Cloud Foundry using App Direct "newrelic" Monitoring Service

PCF AWS marketplace provides app direct services and in this example I am going to use the "newrelic" monitoring service to monitor my spring based java application. It's really this simple.

1. Create a service as shown below.

[Tue Mar 04 17:19:34 papicella@:~/cfapps/spring-travel ] $ cf create-service newrelic standard dev-newrelic

2. Create a manifest.yml for my spring application which uses the new relic service above.

applications:
- name: pas-springtravel 
  memory: 1024M 
  instances: 1
  host: pas-springtravel 
  domain: cfapps.io 
  path: ./travel.war
  services:
  - dev-mysql
  - dev-newrelic

3. Push the application

[Tue Mar 04 17:19:34 papicella@:~/cfapps/spring-travel ] $ cf push -f manifest.yml 
Using manifest file manifest.yml

Creating app pas-springtravel in org papicella-org / space development as papicella@gopivotal.com...
OK

Using route pas-springtravel.cfapps.io
Binding pas-springtravel.cfapps.io to pas-springtravel...
OK

Uploading pas-springtravel...
Uploading from: travel.war
5.3M, 2748 files
OK
Binding service dev-mysql to pas-springtravel in org papicella-org / space development as papicella@gopivotal.com
OK
Binding service dev-newrelic to pas-springtravel in org papicella-org / space development as papicella@gopivotal.com
OK

Starting app pas-springtravel in org papicella-org / space development as papicella@gopivotal.com...
OK
-----> Downloaded app package (22M)
-----> Uploading droplet (67M)

0 of 1 instances running, 1 starting
0 of 1 instances running, 1 starting
0 of 1 instances running, 1 starting
0 of 1 instances running, 1 starting
0 of 1 instances running, 1 starting
1 of 1 instances running

App started

Showing health and status for app pas-springtravel in org papicella-org / space development as papicella@gopivotal.com...
OK

requested state: started
instances: 1/1
usage: 1G x 1 instances
urls: pas-springtravel.cfapps.io

     state     since                    cpu    memory         disk           
#0   running   2014-03-04 05:24:43 PM   0.0%   610.7M of 1G   155.9M of 1G 

4. Under the services listed on AWS click on "Manage" and here are some screen shots of what the newrelic monitoring service provides with just a simple BIND when we pushed the application.





1 comment:

Shannon LoConte said...

Thanks for showing how easy it can be to use an application monitoring tool like New Relic with Cloud Foundry. As PaaS environments like Cloud Foundry are growing quickly, I think that it's critical to business success to use a smart monitoring solution. Dynatrace (who actually just partnered with Cloud Foundry) is a solution that is powered by artificial intelligence to auto-detect issues and provides root cause analysis in real-time. You can start fixing problems in the time you'd normally spend finding them. Learn more at: http://www.dynatrace.com/en/ruxit/technologies/cloud-and-microservices/cloud-foundry-monitoring/