Great contribution from our partner Splitpoints solutions on how to collect and format Performance Vision data into Elastic Search / Kibana. Potential applications are: - NPM or APM custom dashboards - Dashboards mixing Performance Vision data with other ITSM tools / sources - Alerting and baselining.

1. Performance Vision and
Elastic Search / Hotrod
Brett Airey
September 2015

2. Products we use

3. What we do !
• Network Performance analysis.
• Application Performance analysis.
• Build Big Data Systems (Splunk & Hotrod)
• Troubleshooting IT incidents full stack.
• Manage and traffic-shape networks for
maximum performance. ( Bandwidth still
issue outside of major cities)
• Custom Logging pipeline for Clients

4. The Challenges
• Securactive - Technical Tool for the Tech’s
• Disparate systems all have own Reporting
• No Central point for Correlation and
Collaboration.
• Aggregation of Data , lose the ability to drill in
to the fine resolution in a reasonable time
period.
Need more transparency of key Metrics

5. The Dream for resolving Incidents
all stakeholders metrics in one place
Incident
COMMON TIME SERIES
NETWORK METRICS
ALL DEVICE ACCESS LOGS
CHANGE CONTROL EVENTS
SERVER RESOURCE METRICS
APPLICATION METRICS / LOGS
STORAGE PERFORMANCE METRICS
APM NPM (Securactive )

6. Why we believe tools like
Elasticsearch is the way
• Open-source (Important community for us)
• In memory searching, so it’s fast, scalable.
• Has proven performance.
• Hardware requirements low spec.
• Works well with Docker “ Micro Services”

7. How we are doing it
• HTML “API” into Securactive
• Program …..
• Import
• Naming convention - Std names ie Host,ipadd
• HOTROD “ Panoptix”

8. Why HotRod into Elasticsearch
• Authentication as standard.
• Reader app to track highwatermark.
• Alerting on variances to baseline.
• Limit user view through role based access.
• Loosley coupled, ability to change
components with relative ease.

9. So how does it all work..
I am sure in the future versions we will get
nicely formatted JSON.
Performance
Vision
Elastic DB
Hotrod/Elastic
Interface

10. How it all fits Together

11. Harvesting Data from Securactive

12. The Elasticsearch Query

13. HotRod RESTful endpoint (API)

14. Displaying the Chart

15. Screen Shots
Quick select periods and aggregation as well as Refresh
interval for Dashboards

16. Screen Shots
Visualise your key metrics

17. Screen Shots
Visualise your Data using the extensive graphs available

18. HotRod is Opensource
panoptix-za/HotRod ·
GitHub