On 09/01/2008, Mario Siegenthaler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're running an ActiveMQ-based messaging infrastructure with multiple > applications communicating over it. Everything is running fine, but we > want to implement an 'alert'-system in case something goes wrong. I'm > not talking about a broker failure here (that is already monitored), > but of application-related (or even business-level) 'mishaps'. > > Things we want to detect: > * 'overfilling' of a queue because the consumer-application is either > dead or simply cannot keep up with the message load. So basically we > want to monitor the queue-length and raise an alert if it grows over a > certain amount of messages. > * messages on queues that're supposed to be empty in a perfect world > (invalidMessage-queues, dead-letters). > * no messages are sent to a queue (f.e. measured via the enqueue-count) > > I'm imagining some system that let's you input the assertions/policies > and the action on violation (i.e. send an email, send a message to a > queue) per queue and then monitors that. > > Now, while I'm sure it's possible to build such an application (maybe > even as an ActiveMQ-plugin) I wanted to ask whether anybody known such > a system (preferably open-source)? > > I think the requirement is common enough that an OS-solution could > (should :) exist. If it does not and we decide to build it, would the > ActiveMQ-project be interested in a donation or should be just host it > somewhere else and maybe provide a link in the wiki?
Try Hyperic which does this kinda thing... http://www.hyperic.com/ you could also try our distro of Hyperic, FUSEHQ which has a number of enhancements... http://open.iona.com/products/fuse-hq/ -- James ------- http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ Open Source Integration http://open.iona.com
