Using Dockers for DB Monitoring
- 1. DB Monitoring & Docker Containers Prasad Vemuri Trans App Data Technologies Pvt. Ltd Hyderabad Telangana India
- 2. DB Monitoring: Requirements ➢ Scheduling ➢ Script Library ➢ Deployment to Target Servers & Central Monitoring Console ➢ Timely Alerts/ Notification & Corrective Actions ➢ Stability and Availability ➢ Integration with Ticketing System ➢ Security
- 3. DB Monitoring: Scheduling ➢ Monitoring Tools Licensed / Open Source ➢ Pros ➢ Centralized and Console based GUI Interfaces ➢ Cons ➢ Configuration and Maintenance challenges ➢ Crontab Scheduling ➢ Pros ➢ No additional Cost ➢ Cons ➢ Failures by and Large go Unnoticed ➢ Deployment of New scripts and Corrections: Cumbersome
- 4. DB Monitoring: Deployment to Target Servers and Central Console ➢ Deployment to Target Server ➢ Pros ➢ Granular Control ➢ Cons ➢ Maintenance ➢ Centralized Console ➢ Pros ➢ Offers Ease in Scripts Management ➢ Shell Based Monitoring or Language Independent ➢ Version Dependencies Management ➢ Ease of Operation
- 5. DB Monitoring: Alerts / Notification and Actions ➢ Alerts ➢ Threshold Based alerts ➢ Notification ➢ Java based Mailers Platform Independent ➢ Actions ➢ Automated Corrective Actions available.
- 6. DB Monitoring: Stability and Availability ➢ Target Deployment ➢ Point of Failure ➢ Host Dependencies ➢ Central Console ➢ Point of Failure ➢ Agent requirement on Targets ➢ Costs Involved for Maintaining High Availability
- 7. DB Monitoring : What TAD Offers ➢ Scheduling ➢ Cron based Central Console Monitoring ➢ Script Library ➢ Large Scripts Library ➢ Flexibility to Integration / Adapt Home grown Scripts ➢ Extensible ➢ Deployment to Target Servers & Central Monitoring Console ➢ Docker Container based Central Console Deployment with Minimal deployment time for complete Environment/ Landscape. ➢ Granular Control ➢ Timely Alerts/ Notification & Corrective Actions ➢ Alerting / Event Based Notification and Segregation. ➢ Stability and Availability ➢ Using Docker Features of Auto restart of Containers and HA and Load balancing. ➢ Integration with Ticketing System ➢ Available. ➢ Security ➢ Wallet Based DB user Authentication with restricted privileges.
- 8. DB Monitoring : TAD offerings & Docker Containers ➢ Leverages features of Dockers ➢ High Availability and Auto-Restart containers ➢ Requires Small Foot prints ➢ Oracle Insta-client ➢ Deployment of the required Image. ➢ Scripts / Updates maintained in Volumes ➢ Cron features ➢ Docker Swarm Features