[jboss-dev-forums] [JBoss Transactions Development] - TransactionMonitoringAndVisualization

[James Strachan]

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As an aside, we've added breadcrumbs to Apache Camel, ActiveMQ and CXF so that we try to pass breadcrumbs over camel message exchanges, ActiveMQ JMS message flows and CXF web service/REST invocations so its easy to link together log messages, events and messages.

e.g. here's  http://camel.apache.org/mdc-logging.html how Camel links the breadcrumbs to Java logging events

then we've a plugin in  http://www.jboss.org/products/fuse Fuse to write log statements and camel messages to  http://www.elasticsearch.org/ ElasticSearch (so its kinda like logstash) then we can query and correlate the message flow by a particular breadcrumbId. (We don't yet generate a nice summary record per breadcrumbId with start/stop timings or timings at each endpoint - which would make this metadata easier to query from tools like the Polymeta Dashboard console).

Here's  https://vimeo.com/68442425 a little screencast showing using the Fuse web tooling which towards the end (maybe 8-10 mins in) shows the log searching and the camel message audit stuff which shows querying by breadcrumb ID - which is really just using  http://www.elasticsearch.org/ ElasticSearch as the back end data store for querying data (via the Lucene query syntax) then the  http://three.kibana.org/ kibana web application for viewing/querying/filtering the data.

It'd be awesome to add better visualisation & reporting of the overall business flows; though at least the basics - storing log messages & camel message flows with bread crumbs is done - with ElasticSearch making it easy to query etc.

If you wanna play with the code, you could clone the  https://github.com/jboss-fuse/fuse Fuse github repo and then  https://github.com/jboss-fuse/fuse#creating-a-fabric create a Fabric. If you wanna noodle the code that does the logging to ElasticSearch in Fuse, its  https://github.com/jboss-fuse/fuse/tree/master/insight/insight-elasticsearch insight-elasticsearch for log events and  https://github.com/jboss-fuse/fuse/tree/master/insight/insight-camel insight-camel for Camel message auditting.
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