{"product_id":"monitoring-with-ganglia-tracking-dynamic-host-and-application-metrics-at-scale-9781449329709","title":"Monitoring with Ganglia: Tracking Dynamic Host and Application Metrics at Scale","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Ganglia designers and maintainers, this book shows you how to collect and visualize metrics from clusters, grids, and cloud infrastructures at any scale. Want to track CPU utilization from 50,000 hosts every ten seconds? Ganglia is just the tool you need, once you know how its main components work together. This hands-on book helps experienced system administrators take advantage of Ganglia 3.x. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLearn how to extend the base set of metrics you collect, fetch current values, see aggregate views of metrics, and observe time-series trends in your data. You'll also examine real-world case studies of Ganglia installs that feature challenging monitoring requirements. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDetermine whether Ganglia is a good fit for your environment \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearn how Ganglia's gmond and gmetad daemons build a metric collection overlay \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlan for scalability early in your Ganglia deployment, with valuable tips and advice \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTake data visualization to a new level with gweb, Ganglia's web frontend \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrite plugins to extend gmond's metric-collection capability \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTroubleshoot issues you may encounter with a Ganglia installation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntegrate Ganglia with the sFlow and Nagios monitoring systems \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors include: Robert Alexander, Jeff Buchbinder, Frederiko Costa, Alex Dean, Dave Josephsen, Peter Phaal, and Daniel Pocock. Case study writers include: John Allspaw, Ramon Bastiaans, Adam Compton, Andrew Dibble, and Jonah Horowitz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matt Massie,Bernard Li,Brad Nicholes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e O'Reilly Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/25\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 7.02w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781449329709\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt Massie open-sourced Ganglia in 2000 while working as a Staff Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He designed ganglia to monitor a shared computational grid of clusters distributed across the United States for scientific research. In 2010, he contributed a chapter on cluster monitoring for the O'Reilly book \"Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time\" by John Allspaw and Jesse Robbins. Matt is currently a software engineer at Cloudera focused on Apache Hadoop enterprise management and monitoring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernard Li is a High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is currently one of the maintainers of the Ganglia project. He has been involved with HPC since 2003 and has worked on Open Source projects such as OSCAR, SystemImager and Warewulf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrad Nicholes is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and is currently working as a Consultant Software Engineer for NetIQ. In addition to being a committer on the Apache HTTPD and APR projects, Brad is also a developer as well as one of the administrators of the Ganglia project. As a developer on the Ganglia project, Brad developed and introduced the C\/C++ and Python metric module interface into Gangla 3.1.x. He also developed and contributed several of the initial metric modules that currently ship with Ganglia. Brad attended school at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University and holds a degree in Computer Science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVladimir Vuksan (Broadcom) has worked in technical operations, systems engineering and software development for over 15 years. Prior to Broadcom he has worked at Mocospace, Rave Mobile Safety, Demandware, University of New Mexico implementing high availability solutions and building tools to make managing and running infrastructure easier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"O'Reilly Media","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44923859894387,"sku":"9781449329709","price":48.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_be092931-566b-4080-96e3-bcab668b8d9b.jpg?v=1778002400","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/monitoring-with-ganglia-tracking-dynamic-host-and-application-metrics-at-scale-9781449329709","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}