# Monitoring & Observability **URL:** https://community.itrsgroup.com/c/monitoring/7.md [Latest](https://community.itrsgroup.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.itrsgroup.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.itrsgroup.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the Monitoring & Observability category](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/about-the-monitoring-observability-category/21)
**Author:** [@system](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [8 November 2021 11:40 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/about-the-monitoring-observability-category/21 "2021-11-08T11:40:22Z")
Discussions about monitoring and observability across your estate - including integrations, best practices, architectures, and multi-vendor or open-source environments. Integrations Best Practice Solutions --- ## [Announce: Geneos Best Practice sub-site](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/announce-geneos-best-practice-sub-site/217)
**Author:** [@pgalbavy](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/pgalbavy)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [5 December 2024 08:22 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/announce-geneos-best-practice-sub-site/217 "2024-12-05T08:22:28Z")
ITRS, and specifically the Professional Services team, have been using a set of Geneos Best Practice documents and set-up files for over a decade when planning and deploying Geneos for our clients. These have never been … --- ## [Script for testing CPU values and rules](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/script-for-testing-cpu-values-and-rules/272)
**Author:** [@Steve\_Lapp](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/Steve_Lapp)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [28 March 2024 19:49 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/script-for-testing-cpu-values-and-rules/272 "2024-03-28T19:49:54Z")
I needed a script that would set a CPU usage value to a certain percent to test some static and forecasting alerts. All right for this to openAI. This script takes a parameter 1-100 and the script will attempt to keep… --- ## [Test your Python Apps with Geneos' Open Telemetry Plugin](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/test-your-python-apps-with-geneos-open-telemetry-plugin/263)
**Author:** [@Steve\_Lapp](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/Steve_Lapp)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [17 January 2024 21:24 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/test-your-python-apps-with-geneos-open-telemetry-plugin/263 "2024-01-17T21:24:20Z")
When you don’t want to get locked into a specific vendor for your APM instrumentation OpenTelemetry is the way to go. It is the closest thing out there to vendor neutral. Before anyone dives into OpenTelemetry instrum… --- ## [Announcing geneos-includes site](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/announcing-geneos-includes-site/175)
**Author:** [@pgalbavy](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/pgalbavy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [25 August 2022 08:07 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/announcing-geneos-includes-site/175 "2022-08-25T08:07:00Z")
We are very pleased to announce the initial publication of the geneos-includes site, which is hosted via Github Pages and has been created as a place to share common Geneos configurations, both from inside ITRS but we al… --- ## [Geneos Utilities - Now superseded](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/geneos-utilities-now-superseded/41)
**Author:** [@pgalbavy](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/pgalbavy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [10 November 2021 16:18 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/geneos-utilities-now-superseded/41 "2021-11-10T16:18:00Z")
This package has now been superseded by the one described in RELEASE: Cordial v1.4.4 I am very please to be able to say that I have finally tagged and released v1.0.0 of these utilities, especially usefule I think is t… --- ## [H2 Database "support"](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/h2-database-support/143)
**Author:** [@pgalbavy](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/pgalbavy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [11 February 2022 11:03 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/h2-database-support/143 "2022-02-11T11:03:48Z")
In a project currently underway we had the challenge of connecting to a H2 database, which is used for testing and development before deployment into production when a more traditional database system is then used. As we… --- ## [What are valid names for Geneos components?](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/what-are-valid-names-for-geneos-components/126)
**Author:** [@pgalbavy](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/pgalbavy)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [15 December 2021 10:48 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/what-are-valid-names-for-geneos-components/126 "2021-12-15T10:48:39Z")
As part of the work I am doing on the package in the topic Geneos Golang package I am adding support for sanitising user input for instance names, both with a view to securing of input (Bobby Tables is not welcome here!… --- ## [Hyper-Threading on Gateway servers - Yea or Nay?](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/hyper-threading-on-gateway-servers-yea-or-nay/125)
**Author:** [@harry4747](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/harry4747)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [14 December 2021 16:39 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/hyper-threading-on-gateway-servers-yea-or-nay/125 "2021-12-14T16:39:31Z")
I have lots of gateways loaded up on a fairly decent spec box with a lot of database logging. We have hyper-threading enabled…is that a good thing, does anyone have any experience either way on this? Thanks --- ## [Geneos-utils: Tools to manage multiple Geneos components on a single server](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/geneos-utils-tools-to-manage-multiple-geneos-components-on-a-single-server/99)
**Author:** [@pgalbavy](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/pgalbavy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [23 November 2021 08:53 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/geneos-utils-tools-to-manage-multiple-geneos-components-on-a-single-server/99 "2021-11-23T08:53:23Z")
Original from this Support Article Within ITRS we have been using a set of tools unimaginatively called geneos-utils to manage multiple Geneos components and versions on a single server for some time. Different versio… --- ## [Monitor your Java Apps with jmxtrans](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/monitor-your-java-apps-with-jmxtrans/37)
**Author:** [@Steve\_Lapp](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/Steve_Lapp)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [19 November 2021 19:36 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/monitor-your-java-apps-with-jmxtrans/37 "2021-11-19T19:36:56Z")
In the current age of fast deploying applications, using a Java Agent can help instrument you application without requiring code changes. With JMXTrans you can configure a set of exposed mbeans and the JMX Metrics Expo… --- ## [Monitoring NTP on Linux Operating Systems](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/monitoring-ntp-on-linux-operating-systems/91)
**Author:** [@Steve\_Lapp](https://community.itrsgroup.com/u/Steve_Lapp)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [19 November 2021 17:10 UTC](https://community.itrsgroup.com/t/monitoring-ntp-on-linux-operating-systems/91 "2021-11-19T17:10:25Z")
There have been a few different iterations of NTP monitoring for various Operating Systems. I know that this simple script has been used across a variety of systems. #!/bin/bash echo "Name,Value" ntpq -crv | tr "," …