The FME Cloud team share their tips and tricks on how to monitor and maintain uptime for FME Server deployments. We share the technologies and the processes that we use to manage the hundreds of FME Server instances that run on FME Cloud. This presentation would be useful for people looking to deploy FME Server both on-premises and in the cloud on Windows or Linux.

1. Monitoring and Maintaining
FME Server
Claude Vessaz & Stewart Harper

2. Mindset
• Linux is first class citizen
• Server should recover
automatically
• Allow remote debug
• Expect the unexpected
• Do not re-invent the wheel

3. Collect Data
Use services where possible

4. Server Monitoring
●Collect key metrics
○ Disk usage, CPU Load,
Memory, Network traffic,
response time
●Keep history of metrics

5. Logs
●Collect logs centralized
●Make them searchable
●Ability to filter

6. Alerting
●Alerts based on metrics
or logs
●Tiered system, different
channels

7. FME Cloud services

8. Tame the beast
Increase your FME Server uptime

9. Log rotation
• System logs
• FME Server logs
Protect your server from the disk filling up.

10. FME Server Services
• Write your own service scripts
• De-bundle processes
• Use monit or systemd to watch processes
Improve FME Server services stability (Linux).

11. NGINX
• Security: Simplified SSL configuration
• Security: No need to run Tomcat as root
• Performance: Serves static content faster
High performance web server in front of
FME Server (reverse proxy)

12. Beware of the engine
• Security: Do not run as root
• Uptime: Resource hogger
– Protect other processes (OOM score)
Protect your server from the engine.

13. THANK YOU!
claude.vessaz@safe.com
stewart.harper@safe.com