Category Archives: Analytics

SmartDataCenter: Analytics and Introspection

June 27, 2011 – 12:00 pm

Introspection is defined as the “contemplation of one’s own thoughts, impressions and feelings”, but if you’re an application running in the cloud, introspection reflects “why” as much as “how”. Moving from managed infrastructure to cloud-based solution often involves a big tradeoff in transparency – transparency in the control layers, visibility into how systems are setup, [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Announcements, Infrastructure | Leave a Comment

SmartDataCenter: Disk IO Throttling for Optimal Performance

June 22, 2011 – 5:49 pm

Disk I/O throttling is one of the latest features of SmartDataCenter and enables cloud operators to selectively cap and throttle Disk I/O operations, thereby improving overall system performance. Examples of throttling can include: Throttling I/O to locally attached disk to prevent one thread/customer/zone from dominating access to the disk pool Limiting CPU utilization to prevent [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Infrastructure, Interviews | Leave a Comment

New Relic Standard now Free for Joyent Customers

May 20, 2011 – 8:00 am

So a few months ago I walked over to South Park to meet An Le, New Relic’s business development superstar. Over scones at Town’s End, we talked about the challenges facing application developers — specifically the lack of good introspection tools to illustrate for developers what is broken and why — and what we could [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Announcements, DTrace, Partnerships, Special Offers, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

How to Use vmstat for Performance Analysis

April 28, 2011 – 3:00 pm

Deirdre and Brendan took the time to put together some video guides to using vmstat to monitor systems for performance analysis. Brendan explains key fields in the video above, but also covers all the data output and how to scope for inquiries in multi-tenant environments. The examples should come in handy for anyone working with [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in DTrace, Open Source, OpenSolaris, Video | Comments (1)

How to Use Analytics to Quickly Spot Garbage Collection Latency with Node.js

March 28, 2011 – 7:52 am

Over on his blog, Dave Pacheco sets up a test case that uses the analytics visualization tools baked into our Node.js Cloud Services to diagnose the source of a latency-inducing garbage collection problem: A few weeks ago I posted about Cloud Analytics on no.de. I described the various metrics we included in the initial launch [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in DTrace, node.js | Leave a Comment

Use No.de, Win Early Copy of Brendan Gregg’s DTrace Bible

March 11, 2011 – 2:13 pm

If you just can’t wait to get your hands on Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro’s “DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD” and you’re hacking away at Joyent’s Node.js Cloud Services, then have we got an opportunity for you! Show and tell us how you’re using the new analytics and visualization [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in DTrace, node.js | Leave a Comment

Rough Cuts: Video From Our Node.js Community Event

March 3, 2011 – 11:14 am

For those who weren’t able to make it, here’s a preliminary edit of video from the Node.js community event at Joyent on Tuesday: Introductions Tom Hughes-Croucher and Bryan Cantrill introduce the evening. Download in 1080p, 720p or 360p. Update: We’ve also added a screencast of the presentation on visualization from Brendan Gregg, available to view [...]

By Deirdré Straughan | Also posted in Events, node.js, Video | Comments (2)

Welcome to Cloud Analytics

March 1, 2011 – 5:46 pm

By Dave Pacheco We’ve been talking for several weeks now about our work on Cloud Analytics. Today, we’re showing the world what we’ve put together. Now available on Joyent’s Node.js Service: a first look at Cloud Analytics in action — on your very own Node.js application. Cloud Analytics (CA for short) is a tool for [...]

By lreitman | Also posted in Announcements, DTrace, Joyent, node.js, Software | Leave a Comment
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