The twenty-second update to JXInsight 5.7 has been published. This update includes a number of console enhancements to the probes resource metering/billing/tracking views including integrated wild card name filtering, name abbreviations, exclusion of particular resource meters, as well as the ability to hide a number of the visual elements within each view for improved screen real estate usage.
The twenty-first update to JXInsight 5.7 has been published. This release includes filtering enhancements to the probes metering tree & table views in the console as well as set of Oracle Coherence message and packet IO related counters that are tallied at the thread level (for use as meters), aggregated at the process and across host and cluster.
In addition our enhanced (for production) AspectJ load-time weaver library has been upgraded to the latest release and the Windows installer now ships with Sun’s Java 1.6.0_14 runtime.
Further information is available in the release-notes.txt file located in the root directory of the installation.
Just in case you missed this the OpenCore team has been busying benchmarking both our Probes and Metrics technologies against various Sun Microsystems monitoring and problem diagnostics technologies including JMX, DTrace, and VisualVM/NetBeans Profiler.
The results are pretty impressive with OpenCore out-performing Sun’s offerings by 30x-700x. Clearly demonstrating our technical leadership and product excellence in this field.
But performance is only part of our winning formula (technically speaking). We still have the best (and most beautiful) application monitoring visualization console on the market and our Open API’s exhibit a rare form of simplicity and consistency paired with unlimited versatility in the underlying model and extension points.
You can get more up-to-date information on our OpenCore project here.
The twentieth update to JXInsight 5.7 has been published. This is mainly a misc bug fix release with some localized optimizations back ported from the latest release of OpenCore.
Our OpenCore site has been launched along with the first early access release of OpenCore 6.0. This new site will serve to instruct users in how to integrate this new offering into existing enterprise system management & monitoring solutions and how best to extend its many extension points via its Open API and aspect based SDK.
William Louth, Product Architect of JXInsight, will be giving a free “in the brain of” session at SkillsMatter London on Monday 12th @ 18:30 discussing approaches to metering software activity in the cloud for the purpose of performance management, cost management, and capacity planning of cloud software and cloud services.
He will present a vision of the future of computing that sees the importance of software activity monitoring rising across many IT management domains as users and enterprises become more accustomed to making micro-payments for every virtual interaction & resource reservation and how developers will become the engineers and owners of software service based businesses spanning multiple cloud platforms.
You can register for the talk here
Next week we will be starting the public early access program for, OpenCore 6.0, an exciting new addition to our JXInsight product editions. OpenCore 6.0 is an extremely lean distribution of our Probes and Metrics Open API, runtimes and extensions. It is specifically targeted for server-side integration with existing enterprise system monitoring & management solutions, solutions that have up to now not been able to offer anything comparable to what we have delivered.
Note: We are hundreds of times faster in metering and monitoring applications than any other product offered by established management vendors.
This is an incredibly small and lightweight distribution suited for embedding, integrating and extending within an existing managed environment that uses JMX, REST or similar remoting interfaces for pulling metric data from diverse monitoring agents.
The resource metering and metrics models collected by our instrumentation and measurement runtime is made available locally from within any managed process via our Open API or remotely via the publication of our models to JMX as well as other web and grid based remoting interfaces.
Note: We have ambitious plans within the OpenCore project to extend our reach to other languages and runtimes as well as collecting meters and metrics from external systems.
For the early access program we are looking for software companies interested in
The nineteenth update to JXInsight 5.7 has been published. This update includes performance and memory footprint enhancements made within the probes resource metering runtime and supporting aspects library as well as an updated JRuby-to-Ruby cross language probe extension library.
The eighteenth update to JXInsight 5.7 has been published. This update includes a performance enhancement (60x faster than nearest rival) when using the default metering strategy, hotspot, in monitoring low cost instrumented method invocations with extremely high invocation frequencies per second.
The console has also been updated with subtle visual clues to the current status of a name probe in terms of its hotspot evaluation.
