You can log messages directly via the Stackify API without the use of a logging framework. You can get more information at the Stackify Github page. Please note that we recommend using NLog, Serilog, or log4net. Those frameworks allow you to send your logs to multiple different outputs. If you decide to not use Stackify products in the future, your …
Connections: JMX
Here are instructions on how to add you JMX connection in the Retrace portal so you can view and create monitors around MBeans on your applications. To start go to Settings > Configure > JMX Connections. How to Add a JMX Connection for Tomcat or Glassfish 1. Name your JMX connection. 2. Enter your Connection Address. An example of a …
Errors and Logs: Overview
Stackify’s Errors and Logs API enables you to get more from what you’re logging. Simply plug in a Stackify appender into your existing framework, or log your messages directly to Retrace without a framework via the Stackify API. Once properly configured, you will be able to get more contextual information about your exceptions, view your app’s log messages, begin correlating exceptions …
FAQ: How Do I Avoid Deploying the Retrace Agent in Azure On Roles That I Do Not Want to Monitor?
If you followed our instructions for deploying to Azure roles but want to make sure that you don’t install the agent on certain roles (roles used for Dev or QA for example), you can do something like the following to perform a selective deployment. Selective Deployment Instructions 1. Add a config setting to ServiceDefinition.csdef called “DeployStackify”, ie. <ConfigurationSettings> <Setting name=”DeployStackify” …
FAQ: How Do I Report on Website Availability?
Below will walk through the steps of how you can view your website availability percentage. First, you will need to setup a website monitor for your application. For more information on how to setup a website monitor take a look at Monitors: Web Sites. Once you have added the website monitor, you will get some new data on your dashboard showing …
Environments: Change Environments for a Device
To change the environment that has been specified for your device, just follow these simple steps. Go To Server Settings From the Monitoring > Servers page select Server Settings from the Actions menu of the server you wish to edit. Change The Environment From the Environment dropdown, select the Environment you want to reassign this server to and click ‘Save’.
Alerts and Notifications: Overview
Retrace gives you the ability to see all active alerts in a single location under the Alerts screen. Here, you can see all active alerts grouped for easy visibility across the entire install base, and you can respond to the alerts from here as well if you wish. Alerts From the Alerts page, you can sort alerts (within each server …
Custom Metrics: Configure for Java
Retrace supports the monitoring of custom metrics for Java web applications. Metrics are reported to Stackify once a minute. They are only reported if you log a value within that minute time frame. See advanced settings below about overriding that default behavior. All metrics have a category and metric name. It is recommended to group similar metrics under a single category …