Generic Reactive Monitoring Agent #7
Description
Developing reactive applications over streaming pipelines are very popular in recent days. Many opensource frameworks that are available in the market (Ex: SpringBoot reactive apis, Eclipse .Vertx....) for developing reactive applications
https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/web-reactive.html
https://vertx.io/docs/vertx-reactive-streams/java/
Since the reactive monitoring are very specific to technological frameworks, i don't see any common reactive monitoring agent which supports all the platform frameworks.
The following can be done as a part of generic reactive monitoring agent.
- Identify the common reactive metrics which supports all the technological frameworks. This is bit tough initially, but we can arrive at common metrics list
- Create a testing framework which support different frameworks which exposes the common metrics
- Expand the metrics list over a period of time based on the knowledge earned during development phase
- Develop the agent in jar based deployable format, so that it can be easy to run the agent without external dependencies
- Develop a web UI to expose metrics in rich dashboards or expose an option to integrate with SnappyFlow
- The agent jar can be easily integrate with Prometheus based monitoring platforms
Based on comments, i can come up with the initial development approach for the following applications
- Event bus (messaging)
- Http servers
- Web sockets
- Datagram sockets
- Thread pool
- Net client/Server
- ....