Install Manually Download the Installer You can find a link to the Windows Installer from the Getting Started Page in Retrace or by clicking the Add New button at the top of your Servers Monitoring page. Run the downloaded installer and follow the installation steps below. Enter Your Account’s Activation Key You will be prompted for an Activation Key. This …
Errors and Logs: Configure Standalone Logwatcher
The main purpose of the Standalone Logwatcher is to monitor a file you find important, like the Apache log for example. You can use the Standalone Logwatcher to upload the contents of these files as they are updated to Retrace which then the contents will be view-able via the Logs Dashboard. Only one file can be monitored per path, if you …
Prefix Premium: Custom Configuration Editor
By default, Prefix only instruments key, pre-defined events in the IIS pipeline and page lifecycle. One of the key benefits of the profiler, however, is that you may instrument how long any .NET method takes to execute and include that output in the call stack. In deciding what to profile, keep in mind the overhead that could be incurred. For …
Deployment Tracking: API Code Samples
The ClientWebAPI exposes command endpoints that can start, complete, or cancel a deployment request. A Deployment Request is applied to an app environment at the specified version. The app environment is identified by the string keys AppName and EnvironmentName. The deployment request Version is also an identifying string. When evaluating the current state of a deployment request, it will be located by these three strings. We do some basic validation to …
Errors and Logs: Capturing Web Request Details
By default, the following web request details are masked as they can contain sensitive data: Headers Post Data Server Variables Session Variables Cookies However, you can configure your app to unmask this in your app’s config file. Stackify will then retrieve information about these fields and list it in the Error Details page or in the “View Document” view for …
Java Agent Installation: Configure APM+ on Standalone Applications
Pre-Requisites: 1) Application must be setup with our custom configuration or be using one our supported Non-WebApp frameworks (Quartz, Spring Batch, Akka). Please follow these steps here first: Configure Custom Profiling for Java. 2) Application must be setup as a Linux Service. 3) Linux Agent Installed Example using annotations: import com.stackify.apm.Trace; @Trace public class ClassToBeInstrumented { @Trace(start = true) …
Java Agent Installation: Configure Docker Containers
Docker and Docker Swarm Support Installation of the Stackify agent is required on the docker host system, it should not be installed on containers. See our guide to install the Linux agent here. When installing the agent on the docker host add the –docker argument to the installation script. This grants the agent access to view docker container stats: wget https://s1.stackify.com/Account/AgentDownload/Linux –output-document=stackify.tar.gz && tar …
Prefix: Tutorials
Collection of tutorials, blog posts and other content suggested for Prefix users: Video: A Quick Tour of Prefix Blog: The Best Log Viewer in the Universe Blog: Finding Hidden Exceptions in Your Application with Prefix Blog: How to View Any SQL Query in Your Application with Prefix Prefix Premium Features: Blog: How to Use Prefix to Troubleshoot Remote HTTP Calls …