Having a basic GUI to view statistics is very useful. but I'm not sure how that aligns with overall analytics story.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Isuru Perera <isu...@wso2.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have few questions regarding $subject. > > The latest Carbon Metrics release (v1.2.1) has "features" that can be > installed on any Carbon 4.x.x products. It also has Management Console UIs. > For example: https://docs.wso2.com/display/MB300/Using+JVM+Metrics > > This metrics management console UI can be extended via an OSGi fragment > bundle to develop custom UIs. For example: > https://docs.wso2.com/display/MB300/Using+Messaging+Metrics > > This is one of main features in Carbon Metrics. > > The Metrics configurations are done in > "$CARBON_HOME/repository/conf/metrics.xml". The configuration is in XML. > > If we are supporting Carbon Metrics in Carbon 5, I think following needs to > be done. > > Use latest Carbon P2 Plugin and update Metrics features to be compatible > with Carbon 5 > Use YAML for configuration. > Admin services for Metrics Data fetching need to be converted as REST > services. > Remove Management Console UIs as there is no support for Management Console > UIs in Carbon 5. > Set source and target Java version to Java 8. We can use Java 8 features. > > If we remove Management Console UIs, how can we implement the UIs to > visualize Metrics data? > > I heard that we should use only DAS for visualizing Metrics. But I prefer to > have separate UI to visualize the metrics from the database. Then we can use > Metrics UIs without depending on WSO2 DAS. > > If we don't want to have a UI, we will have to drop the JDBC reporter as > well. > > Question to CEP Team: There is another UI to show hierarchical metrics. What > will happen to that in Carbon 5? > > How can we implement REST services in Carbon 5? (We may not need this if we > are not developing any UIs) > > By default, Metrics data are stored in local H2 database. Can we use the > same approach in Carbon 5? (This is not needed if we stop using the JDBC > reporter). > > There is also a properties file to configure Metric Levels. I hope that's > not a problem. > > The plan is to use v2.0.0 for Metrics release with Carbon 5. We can maintain > v1.x.x branch for Carbon 4.x.x products. > > Currently the WSO2 Gateway and MSF4J uses Carbon Metrics as Maven > Dependencies. We need a proper Carbon 5 supported release to integrate > Carbon Metrics to these products. > > I really appreciate your feedback on this. > > Thanks! > > Best Regards, > > -- > Isuru Perera > Associate Technical Lead | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/ > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > about.me/chrishantha > Contact: +IsuruPereraWSO2 -- Ramith Jayasinghe Technical Lead WSO2 Inc., http://wso2.com lean.enterprise.middleware E: ram...@wso2.com P: +94 777542851 _______________________________________________ Architecture mailing list Architecture@wso2.org https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture
