Archive for December, 2011

Eating our own Tomcat Monitoring dogfood

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

We received some alerts tonight that one Tomcat server was using about 95% of its configured thread maximum. The Tomcat process on http-443  on prod4 now has 96.2 % of the max configured threads in the busy state. These were SMS alerts, as that was close enough to exhausting the available threads to warrant waking ...

Right sizing infrastructure for VMWare migrations

Friday, December 9th, 2011

I was invited to talk to an MSP peer group the other week, and during the presentation, one of the group members who was a LogicMonitor customer described a way they use LogicMonitor to solve a previously hard-to-solve VMWare operational issue.