Introducing ALM Performance for Jenkins

Aug 16, 2023

Introducing ALM Performance for Jenkins

ALM Performance is a Jenkins monitoring system which is built by Jenkins experts for the community of Jenkins users.

It’s a smart tool that already knows what you should be watching within your Jenkins machines and what the important metrics to follow up on are.

When something goes wrong with your Jenkins machines, ALM Performance quickly alerts you by email and via a graphic dashboard, giving you all the relevant information about the root cause.
You’ll be the first to know about the issue and you also get tools and skills to solve it as quickly as possible.

ALM Performance monitors both IT and application resources unique to Jenkins to simulate its functionality from the end-users’ perspective.

Download: http://almtoolbox.com/jenkins-monitoring

Got questions? Email apm @ almtoolbox dot com

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7.69 -> Hi, this is Steve from ALM Toolbox

10.92 -> This time I’d like to talk to you about the

12.27 -> latest release of our new monitoring tool

14.43 -> for Jenkins masters and slaves.

17.63 -> Monitoring Jenkins performance and its job

19.14 -> pipelines is important if you want to make

20.83 -> sure it’s working properly 24x7

23 -> to make sure you get enough resources

25.28 -> and that it’s giving you full functionality

27.2 -> and high-level of availability

29 -> and for applying the best practices of

31 -> DevOps and Continuous Integration

33.899 -> ALM Performance is a Jenkins monitoring

35.96 -> system which is built by Jenkins experts for

38.03 -> the community of Jenkins users.

40.17 -> It’s a smart tool that already knows what

42.67 -> you should be watching within your Jenkins

44.26 -> machines and what the important metrics to

46.4 -> follow up on are.

49.329 -> This tool was built especially for Jenkins

51.129 -> users and administrators. We have

53.37 -> incorporated our knowledge in a very unique

55.019 -> way so you don’t have to waste time learning

57.03 -> how to monitor these tools or be a monitoring

59.269 -> or ITSM expert.

62.21 -> When something goes wrong with your Jenkins

64.879 -> machines, ALM Performance quickly alerts you

67.979 -> by email and via a graphic dashboard, giving

70.85 -> you all the relevant information about the

72.61 -> root cause.

73.69 -> You’ll be the first to know about the issue

75.79 -> and you also get tools and skills to solve

77.8 -> it as quickly as possible.

80.72 -> ALM Performance monitors both IT

82.91 -> infrastructure and application resources

85.28 -> unique to Jenkins to simulate its

87.37 -> functionality from the end-users’ perspective

90.17 -> and to detect when something goes wrong with

91.86 -> Jenkins itself. Its installation is quick and

95.16 -> easy, using a graphic wizard, so you don’t

97.25 -> need to have lots of time or IT skills to

99.03 -> quickly set it up and running.

100.97 -> Yes, you can start getting information and

103.49 -> insights from your own Jenkins machines

105.26 -> within an hour!

106.92 -> Now let’s see which Jenkins and IT

109.14 -> infrastructure resources ALM Performance

111.42 -> monitors. We’ll see it on the live map in

115.1 -> the dashboard:

116.1 -> On the application side, it monitors the

118.93 -> following for each master and slave:

122.95 -> Report jobs that are running for longer

124.49 -> than they should be i.e. monitoring stuck

127.13 -> jobs. You configure which jobs to monitor,

131.009 -> and you can set a relevant threshold for each

132.93 -> monitored job separately!

136.37 -> This also helps you to discover delayed jobs

138.28 -> in your pipeline and better understand the

140.28 -> job dependencies.

143.59 -> Check to see whether the Jenkins web

144.93 -> application running is responding correctly.

149.47 -> Check if your Java virtual machine, JVM,

152.39 -> which is critical for Jenkins, is actually

154.48 -> running.

156.26 -> Custom Check that enables you to run any

157.99 -> script you want from the tool. The tool

160.18 -> collects its output and represents the output

162.25 -> via both email alerts and the dashboard, in a

164.87 -> way that tells you if a specific process was

166.95 -> finished successfully or not.

169.51 -> This gives you full flexibility to cover any

171.49 -> check you need.

173.75 -> For example, some users need this ability

175.7 -> in order to check if Jenkins can login

177.89 -> successfully to LDAP (using a certain

180.12 -> username).

183.68 -> It also monitors the following IT

185.43 -> infrastructure resources:

187.849 -> Check if the host is alive and can be

189.43 -> reached over the network.

192.11 -> Check to make sure that Jenkins service or

193.68 -> process is up and running

196.59 -> Check to make sure that all the needed

197.819 -> ports for the web application are listening

201.95 -> Memory Check that alerts if consumed

203.43 -> memory is more than XX % for more than NN

206.069 -> consecutive minutes. You can define these

208.459 -> thresholds (separately for each monitored

210.9 -> host) in a smart way that filters-out the

213.18 -> “white noise” of momentary peaks.

215.9 -> For example: you can set a rule that alerts

218.68 -> only if a given host is consuming more than

220.68 -> 80% CPU for more than 2 consecutive minutes.

225.51 -> This way the tool filters out events when

227.1 -> the CPU is higher than 80% for one minute only

229.79 -> (which for example could happen when loading

232.27 -> application or doing heavy tasks for a very

234.68 -> short time).

236.319 -> CPU check that works quite similarly to

238.93 -> Memory Check: the tool can now alert if

242.15 -> consumed CPU is more than XX % for more than

245.02 -> NN consecutive minutes.

249.19 -> Monitor the status of the server’s

250.51 -> available storage capacity, and let you

252.959 -> define thresholds and get notifications

254.989 -> before you run out of space.

257.81 -> You can also see the notifications in a

259.769 -> separate and sortable view, divided by

262.06 -> hostname, time and error types, with full

264.66 -> error descriptions. If you click on a message

267.65 -> you get all details into an overlaid window

269.97 -> That’s ALM Performance!

273.85 -> We offer two editions of ALM Performance:

276.43 -> A Free Community Edition that we contribute

278 -> to the Jenkins community, which provides lots

280.5 -> of functionality at no charge, and a Pro Edition

284.52 -> with full functionality and full support.

287.6 -> Try them both and use the one that fits your

289.57 -> needs! To download visit our website using the address you see now on screen.

296.18 -> Thanks for listening!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=263Nxy1Qb9c