On-demand webinar: nginx.com/resources/webinars/monitoring-highly-dynamic-distributed-services-nginx-amplify In this webinar, we describe the challenges of monitoring highly dynamic and distributed systems, and show how NGINX Amplify can help. Cloud services, containers, and microservices provide flexibility of deployment, but conventional monitoring tools can't always keep up with rapidly changing systems. NGINX Amplify helps you overcome challenges in collecting logs and metrics and acting on the results. Join us in this webinar to discover: - The specific characteristics of distributed systems, immutable infrastructure, and systems that use a microservices architecture. - Why NGINX and NGINX Plus are the go-to application delivery solutions with popular with users of container technologies such as Docker and cloud technologies such as AWS. - What special challenges you may find in monitoring and managing containerized, distributed, and microservices-based systems. - How NGINX Amplify overcomes monitoring and management challenges.

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Monitoring of highly dynamic systems
March 23, 2016

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Webinar speakers
Nick Shadrin
Product Manager,
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Mike Belov
Director of Engineering, SaaS,
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Pros and Cons of distributed applications
• Easy scalability
• Faster deployment
• Independent engineering
• Multiple software stacks
• More moving parts
• Complicated networking
• Complicated tracing
• Complicated monitoring

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Monitoring for dynamic systems
• Each app image is now smaller
• Deployment is different for different software stacks
• Very short lifetime
• More objects to monitor
• Harder to correlate the issues

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NGINX for distributed systems
• Small software size (~3 MB)
• Minimal memory / CPU requirements
• Flexible deployment:
• Any on-prem system
• Any cloud
• Any container

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NGINX for distributed systems
• Same delivery layer across multiple types of service instances
• Compliance with protocol standards
• Known in DevOps world

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NGINX Plus for distributed systems
• Quick response to infrastructure changes:
• API access to upstream configuration
• DNS with Service Discovery tools
• Advanced health checks
• More monitoring data through an API

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SaaS based performance monitoring and
configuration assistance solution native to NGINX

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NGINX Amplify for distributed applications
• Quick response to new workload instances
• Simple provisioning of the agents
• Use in containerized systems
• Aggregated dashboards

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NGINX Amplify Features
• Lightweight agent and a SaaS based Web UI
• Visualizes NGINX inventory and performance
• Collects every possible NGINX metric
• Custom graphs
• Static analysis of NGINX configuration
• Built-in alerting
• Doubles as simple OS-monitoring tool

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New Feature: Syslog Listener
• NGINX Amplify Agent becomes a local syslog server
• NGINX instance sends logs directly, over the local network
• Enable this in:
• /etc/amplify-agent/agent.conf
• nginx configuration files

16. Demo (syslog)

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New Feature: Image names, Aliases, Tags
• Define image names for same application images
• Use aliases for user-friendly service names
• Add tags for anything else:
• locations
• system details
• app types
• OS versions
• programming languages
• business units

18. Demo (tags)

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More information
nginx.com/amplify
nginx.com/blog
github.com/nginxinc
github.com/nginxinc/nginx-amplify-agent
github.com/nginxinc/nginx-amplify-doc

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