Inevitably the time will come when an administrator or manager would like to know a bit more detail about the activity occurring within BBj, whether that be for optimization, troubleshooting, or auditing purposes. The BBj Metrics feature is an excellent tool to make this task quick, easy, robust, and available in real-time.

BBj uses the open-source Prometheus Client Library to instrument (collect) and export various collected metrics for analysis. Use of this format provides the ability to use a combination of the open-source systems monitoring and alerting package, Prometheus, together with an open-source visualization tool such as Grafana to generate beautiful, browser-based, interactive, and highly-customizable visualizations of BBjServices metrics.

A Grafana dashboard reporting on BBj metrics

Read the complete article, " Metrics: Tell Me About It" HERE

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  The Publications Team at BASIS International

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