RTView™ for Oracle Coherence

Effective Management and Monitoring of Data Grids and Applications for Oracle Coherence Users

The Challenge: While there are enormous benefits to an optimized grid infrastructure, two challenges remain. The first is understanding exactly what’s happening at any given moment with so many moving parts to be sure that the grid is scaling as expected. And the second is quickly troubleshooting and fixing potential threats to grid and application scalability. Read more about the challenge.

RTView for Oracle Coherence provides users with increased visibility into the Oracle Coherence grid status and effectiveness. It does so by aggregating and analyzing key performance metrics across the grid, and presenting the results through meaningful dashboards in real time as data is collected. This allows users to know exactly what is going on at any given point, even in high-volume, high-transaction environments.

SL’s data grid viewer was built using RTView™, a real-time monitoring and visualization platform for the easy creation and deployment of highly customizable analytics, dashboards, alerts, and reports. It connects directly with data from Coherence and, optionally, almost any other enterprise data source. The combined solution enables users to visually monitor and create dashboards and reports on the metrics that are important to them, and to make that information actionable for immediate response to exceptions.

Benefits

RTView for Oracle Coherence provides important validation when a grid infrastructure is performing as designed. But more importantly, should any changes in the environment threaten the grid’s performance or stability, it provides early warning of the potential issue and facilitates troubleshooting, enabling users to isolate and solve the problem quickly.

Even for large grids – with hundreds of nodes or thousands of MBeans – RTView for Oracle Coherence provides excellent real-time performance with minimal overhead.

Users are able to persist real-time Oracle Coherence information to any relational database using the RTView Historian. This allows users to analyze real-time grid status using historical context for more effective monitoring.

The solution can also be easily customized to include additional data sources, different views and drill downs.

How It Works

RTView uses a standard JMX data connector to obtain monitoring metrics from Oracle Coherence. With this data in-hand, users can take advantage of RTView's data manipulation, aggregation, and analysis capabilities to “slice and dice” the data to present it in ways that make it presentable and useful.

For example, users are able to:

• View the distribution of hits, misses, gets and puts across the grid
• Track cache capacity and effectiveness
• Identify grid utilization “hot spots,” memory/network problems or capacity bottlenecks, if they occur
• View node hierarchy including sites, racks, machines, processes and roles
• Identify nodes that have departed a cluster but have not returned
• Determine how frequently nodes are disappearing and reappearing
• Track node problems back to operating hardware, if applicable
• Configure alerts to help operations groups monitor the data grid

RTView for Oracle Coherence further enables users to:

• Validate performance tuning and load testing of an application
• Find and fix configuration issues in Oracle Coherence
• Know whether the data grid is over-provisioned or under-provisioned
• See summary data across the grid rather than one MBean at a time, and then drill down to specifics
• Present Oracle Coherence information alongside application or JVM information if available through JMX
• Send alerts to Tivoli or other management consoles

RTView for Oracle Coherence is a separately licensed product offering available directly from SL Corporation.