While PingDirectory Server provides extensive access to monitoring information to clients or in files on the server filesystem, there is a lot of benefit to using an external mechanism for monitoring individual servers and especially for aggregating information across multiple servers.
PingDataMetrics Server
PingDataMetrics Server collects and aggregates performance and event data from a set of PingDirectory, PingDirectoryProxy, and PingDataSync Server instances. It can report the overall performance of the entire directory service, as well as of individual servers. PingDataMetrics Server normalizes and aggregates this data and makes it available through a REST API. It also generates charts for viewing the information in PingDataMetrics Server’s web interface, and both historical and current metrics are available.
StatsD endpoints
PingDirectory Server offers support for StatsD endpoints that can send metrics to third-party monitoring software using a simple, well-defined protocol. Many popular monitoring products (like Splunk and DataDog) provide support for ingesting metrics using the StatsD protocol.
PingDirectory Server supports communicating with StatsD servers over TCP or UDP. It optionally supports TLS encryption when using TCP-based communication.
JMX
Java Management Extensions (JMX) is a core java framework that provides
support for publishing metrics and notifications. JMX is supported by a wide range
of monitoring software, and the jconsole
tool that is provided as
part of Java installations can also be used to interact with JMX-enabled
services.
The PingDirectory Server provides support
for publishing all monitor information as JMX MBeans. It also provides support for a
JMX alert handler that can generate a JMX notification in response to administrative
alerts that are raised within the server. The jmx-read
privilege is
required for access to monitoring data, and the jmx-notify
privilege is required to be able to subscribe to JMX notifications.
SNMP
SNMP is another standard protocol that is widely supported by monitoring software. PingDirectory Server can act as an SNMP subagent to make selected monitoring information available for consumption by SNMP clients and monitoring software. The server can also generate SNMP traps in response to administrative alerts that are raised within the server.