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Prevent Catastrophes With Actionable Monitoring and Alerts for Mendix Applications

Menno de Haas, Team Lead|Mendix Expert, WebflightTom de Groot, Product Manager, MendixAndrej Koelewijn, Product Manager, Mendix

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Agenda

• Value of monitoring• Exploration of new monitoring integration• Partner WebFlight

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Value of Monitoring

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Value of Monitoring

• Is my app running as required?• Am I meeting SLA requirements?• Why is my app not running as required?• Are my dependencies performing as expected?

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Monitoring instruments

• Measure:• Logs• Technical Metrics (CPU, Memory Usage)

• Act:• Predefined Dashboards• Predefined Alerts

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Sometimes, you want more monitoring

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Datadog

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Datadog: Monitoring instruments

• Measure:• Logs• Technical Metrics• Business Metrics (Count & Duration)

• Act:• Predefined Dashboards• Predefined Alerts• Custom Dashboards• Custom Alerts• Consolidated Logs

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Datadog: Business Metrics

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Datadog: Duration

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Datadog: Custom Dashboards

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Datadog: Custom Alerts

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Datadog: Landscape Management

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Mendix and Datadog

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Mendix and Datadog: How To Setup?

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Mendix and Datadog: How To Setup?

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Mendix and Datadog: How To use Monitoring Instruments?With one simple configuration, track the duration of:• Request handlers• Microflows• Activities

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Mendix and Datadog: How To use Monitoring Instruments?Mendix Datadog Connector Kit (Coming Soon)

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BUILD DIGITAL PRODUCTS THAT

MAKE PEOPLE SMILE

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USER CENTERED DEVELOPMENT

For more info about our User Centered Development visit our stand

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Monitoring levels

External

Application

Infrastructure

“Is my app running out of memory?”

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Monitoring levels

External

Application

Infrastructure

“How many orders did we process?”

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Monitoring levels

External

Application

Infrastructure

“Is the connection with my ERP system available?”

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Application monitoring

Infrastructure

External

Application

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RAI Huishoudbeurs

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RAI Huishoudbeurs

40.000registered app users

300.000visitors in one week

50.000downloaded

apps

Participate in prize rounds

Browseprograms

Browseexhibitors

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Demo

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What to monitor? Everything?

Risk Impact

Probability

Money

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Business logic

Monitor prize distribution?

Invalid prize request?

Empty prize request?

User valid?

Round active?

User already participated?

Prize in stock?

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Submit custom metrics

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Configure timeseries graph

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Enjoy the graph!

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Log analysis

Infrastructure

External

Application

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How about logs?

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Relate logs to graphs

?

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View logs and stack traces

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Monitor alerts work with logs

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External API monitoring

Application

Infrastructure

External

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Osawa ScrewGrinding Company

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Monitoring external dependencies

Mendix App ERP?

Webshop

PIM ?

?

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Monitoring availability

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Email alert

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Event stream

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What if the API specs change?

API contract tests

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Do not cause alert fatigue

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Load (stress) testing Application

Infrastructure

External

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Load testing – HTTP requests

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Load testing – Database connections

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Load testing – HTTP response times

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Q&A