[Hawkular-dev] Integration of APM into Hawkular Services

[Gary Brown]

Hi

Hawkular APM is currently built as a separate distribution independent from other Hawkular components. However in the near future we will want to explore integration with other components, such as Alerts, Metrics and Inventory.

Therefore I wanted to explore the options we have for building an integrated environment, to provide the basis for such integration work, without impacting the more immediate plans for Hawkular Services.

The two possible approaches are:

1) Provide a maven profile as part of the Hawkular Services build, that will include the APM server. The UI could be deployed separately as a war, or possibly integrated into the UI build?

2) As suggested by Juca, the APM distribution could be built upon the hawkular-services distribution.

There are pros/cons with both approaches:

My preference is option (1) as it moves us closer to a fully integrated hawkular-services solution, but relies on a separate build using the profile (not sure if that would result in a separate release distribution).

Option 2 would provide the full distribution as a release, but the downside is the size of the distribution (and its dependencies, such as cassandra), when user only interested in APM. Unclear whether a standalone APM distribution will still be required in the future - at present the website is structured to support this.

Thoughts?

Regards
Gary