WSO2 Business Activity Monitor 1.3.2 Released!

Date : 26 October 2011

The WSO2 Business Activity Monitor devlopment team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.2 of WSO2 Business Activity Monitor

The WSO2 Business Activity Monitor is a tool designed to exercise Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). It is intended to serve the needs of both business and IT domain experts to monitor and understand business activities within a SOA deployment. It is specifically designed for monitoring SOA deployments, and can be extended to cater for other general monitoring requirements as well.

The WSO2 Business Activity Monitor is powered by WSO2 Carbon, the SOA middleware component platform.

License

The WSO2 Business Activity Monitor is an open source software product and is release under Apache Software License v2.0.

Downloads

You can download the WSO2 Business Activity Monitor release artifacts from http://wso2.org/downloads/bam.

Improvements for this release

This is mainly a stabilization release with fixes and improvements in many areas

  • Improved perfomance of data publishers and main BAM core
  • Improvements in BAM dashboard
  • Bug fixes across many areas such as third party application monitoring, high load monitoring, summary generation and many more

Features

  • Support for collecting data on service invocations and message mediations
  • Straight through processing - Polling and Eventing based models for automated data collection wihtout manual intervention
  • Real time activity monitoring with zero latency - No time gap between data collection and availability of data for monitoring
  • Analytics for historical data on service invocations and message mediations summarized over various time dimension intervals
  • Data visualization with dashboards and reports
  • Ability to define and monitor key performance indicators (KPI) with dashboards and reports
  • Provision to extend monitoring capabilities by customizing dashboard gadgets
  • Built-in support for monitoring WSO2 WSAS and WSO2 ESB
  • Ability to extend the current monitoring model with user defined data by collecting custom data formats for monitoring
  • Multiple DBMS support (H2 - default, MySQL and MSSQL)
  • Message level data correlation using Activity ID (Experimental)

Issues fixed for this Release

WSO2 Business Activity Monitor 1.3.2 - Fixed Issues

Known Issues

For a high load with a high concurrency(~500) or request bursts, there is a probability that the BAM publisher degrades in performance and can cause a memory outage.

How to Run?

  1. Download the binary distribution zip file
  2. Extract the downloaded zip file
  3. Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder
  4. On Linux/Unix, run wso2server.sh script. On Microsoft Windows, run wso2server.bat file.
  5. Point your browser to the URL https://localhost:9443/carbon
  6. Use username admin, and password admin to login as the administrator.
    NOTE: It is strongly recommended that you change your administrator password from the admin to a more secure one at this point. To do this click on 'Configure->User Managment' link on the ledt menu.
  7. Add servers to be monitored using left menu 'Configure->Monitored Servers'.
  8. Monitor data using various dashboards present under 'Dashboard' section of left menu.
    NOTE: You might have to wait some time till there is data available from the servers being monitored. To see summary data, you have to wait at least one hour, before the first summary run happens.
  9. Have a look at the documentation located at http://http://wso2.org/library/bam for more information on data collection and monitoring capabilities of the WSO2 Business Activity Monitor

Engaging with Community

Mailing Lists

Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.

Reporting Issues

WSO2 encourages you to report issues, enhancements and feature requests for the WSO2 Business Activity Monitor. Use the issue tracker for reporting issues.

Discussion Forums

WSO2 Business Activity Monitor users' forum can be used to engage with developers as well as other users.

Support

We are committed to ensuring that your enterprise middleware deployment is completely supported from evaluation to production. Our unique approach ensures that all support leverages our open development methodology and is provided by the very same engineers who build the technology.

For more details and to take advantage of this unique opportunity please visit http://wso2.com/support/

For more information about WSO2 Business Activity Monitor please see http://wso2.com/products/business-activity-monitor visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank developer portal for additional resources.

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 Business Activity Monitor

-The WSO2 Business Activity Monitor Development Team