Feb 27, 2016

Streaming data to InfluxDB from any bash command

InfluxDB is a great time series database, that’s recently been rebranded as part of the “TICK” stack, including data collectors, visualisation, and ETL/Alerting. I’ve yet to really look at the other components, but InfluxDB alone works just great with my favourite visualisation/analysis tool for time series metrics, Grafana. Getting data into InfluxDB is easy, with many tools supporting the native InfluxDB line input protocol, and those that don’t often supporting the carbon protocol (from Graphite), which InfluxDB also supports (along with others).

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Feb 26, 2016

#FullEnglish

Thanks to the power of twitter, I can look back on all the many and varied Full English breakfasts that I’ve (mostly) enjoyed: https://twitter.com/search?q=rmoff%20%23fullenglish&src=typd What makes a good Full English? Good ingredients, cooked well. Nothing worse than a limp pink sausage, as it were. Sausage, standard pork or Cumberland at most. Definitely no daft apricot and guava bean with a hint of foie gras nonsense. Must be cooked right well, crispy skin, almost burnt.

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Feb 26, 2016

Visualising OBIEE DMS Metrics over the years

It struck me today when I was writing my most recent blog over at Rittman Mead that I’ve been playing with visualising OBIEE metrics for years now. Back in 2009 I wrote about using something called JManage to pull metrics out of OBIEE 10g via JMX: Still with OBIEE 10g in 2011, I was using rrdtool and some horrible-looking tcl hacking to get the metrics out through jmx :

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About Me

I also write on my employer’s blog (previously). whoami Robin is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent, the company founded by the original creators of Apache Kafka, as well as an Oracle ACE Director (Alumnus). He has been speaking at conferences since 2009 including QCon, Devoxx, Strata, Kafka Summit, and Øredev. You can find many of his talks online at http://rmoff.net/talks/, and his blog articles at http://cnfl.io/rmoff and http://rmoff.

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Jan 1, 0001

Talks

You can find all my recent talks on Notist at https://talks.rmoff.net/. Older ones are on Speaker Deck. I have a variety of talks, around several different aspects of Apache Kafka and related technologies. Kafka 101 / introductory talk : “Kafka as a Platform: the Ecosystem from the Ground Up” Introduction to ksqlDB and stream processing principles and semantics - with lots of live demos. “An introduction to ksqlDB” Live demo showing use of Kafka Connect and ksqlDB: “Apache Kafka in Action : Let’s Build a Streaming Data Pipeline!

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