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Practical DevOps

You're reading from   Practical DevOps Harness the power of DevOps to boost your skill set and make your IT organization perform better

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785882876
Length 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to DevOps and Continuous Delivery FREE CHAPTER 2. A View from Orbit 3. How DevOps Affects Architecture 4. Everything is Code 5. Building the Code 6. Testing the Code 7. Deploying the Code 8. Monitoring the Code 9. Issue Tracking 10. The Internet of Things and DevOps Index

Ganglia

Ganglia is a graphing and monitoring solution for large clusters. It can aggregate information in convenient overview displays.

The word "ganglia" is the plural form of ganglion, which is a nerve cell cluster in anatomy. The analogy implies that Ganglia can be the sensory nerve cell network in your cluster.

Like Munin, Ganglia also uses RRDs for database storage and graphing, so the graphs will look similar to the previous Munin graphs. Code reuse is a good thing!

Ganglia has an interesting online demonstration at http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/.

Wikimedia serves media content for Wikipedia, which is pretty busy. The demonstration thus gives us a good overview of Ganglia's capabilities, which would be hard to get in any easy way in your own network.

Ganglia

The first page shows an overview of the available data in graph format. You can drill down in the graphs to get other perspectives.

If you drill down one of the application cluster graphs for CPU load, for example, you...

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