Monitoring Archives • Helge Klein

resticprofile Backup Monitoring Grafana Dashboard

This article explains how to set up a Grafana dashboard to monitor restic/resticprofile backup operations.

Grafana Setup Guide With Automatic HTTPS & OAuth SSO via Authelia

This article explains how to set up Grafana, Loki, and Promtail with automatic HTTPS certificates (via Caddy) and OAuth single sign-on (via Authelia).

Adobe Acrobat & Photoshop: Network Connection Target Hosts

This post lists the internet communication targets of Adobe Acrobat Reader, Photoshop, and Creative Cloud. This post is a part of my application network connection monitoring series, a group of articles that explain how to analyze the network traffic of any Windows or macOS app.

Citrix CVAD: Network Connection Target Hosts

This post lists the internet communication targets of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly XenApp/XenDesktop). This post is a part of my application network connection monitoring series, a group of articles that explain how to analyze the network traffic of any Windows or macOS app.

Windows OS, Services & Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts

This post lists the internet communication targets of the Microsoft Windows operating system, including its various services and UWP apps. This post is a part of my application network connection monitoring series, a group of articles that explain how to analyze the network traffic of any Windows or macOS app.

MS Office & Teams: Network Connection Target Hosts

This post lists the internet communication targets of Microsoft Office and Teams. It is a part of my application network connection monitoring series, a group of articles that explain how to analyze the network traffic of any Windows or macOS app.

Application Network Connection Monitoring With Splunk & uberAgent

This is part 1 of my application network connection monitoring series, a group of articles that explain how to analyze the network traffic of any Windows or macOS app.

What DNS Pointer Records and Tweetups Have in Common

Tools that monitor network traffic typically work with IP addresses, not server names. Humans, on the other hand, seem to prefer names over cryptic numbers. Most tools deal with that by doing reverse lookups of the IP addresses, i.e. they are looking for DNS PTR records. The result of such a lookup, however, is not […]

Now you can PROVE that it’s not Citrix but the backend!

You have been there: end-users are complaining and your boss demands an explanation why “Citrix is slow” – again. You, the XenApp/XenDesktop admin, desperately look at Task Manager and Perfmon, but you cannot find a thing. Your servers are humming along quite nicely, but still: applications are slow, the system feels sluggish and logons are […]

uberAgent Now Monitors RES Workspace Manager Logon Times, Too

Whether user profiles are loading slowly or group policy processing is taking too long – uberAgent for Splunk tells you exactly what is causing slow logons. uberAgent always supported a broad range of platforms, from physical PCs through virtual desktops to Citrix XenApp. Today we add RES Workspace Manager to that list!

Boot IO Analysis with uberAgent for Splunk 1.5

Analyzing slow boots is a difficult task. You need to install software like XPerf and master its far-from-intuitive command-line options to generate a trace file that you can then analyze. Once you find a possible cause for the long startup duration you never know if it is specific to the machine you analyzed or if […]

Application Usage Metering with uberAgent for Splunk

uberAgent has been pretty good at monitoring applications for some time. It is capable of auto-grouping processes to applications and showing IOPS and other stats per application in addition to per process. All this gets even better today: beta 2, available now, adds application usage metering to the feature list.

uberAgent for Splunk: User Experience

Who said that end users get all the pretty UIs? Administrators are as happy as anyone to replace ugly consoles with good-looking HTML5 that runs on a smartphone just as well as on a PC.

uberAgent for Splunk: Dynamic Application Identification

uberAgent for Splunk monitors Windows machines. It does not try to display as much data as possible but focuses on visualizing what is actually going on instead. In the last post we gave you a glimpse of the information it can display about user sessions and logon times. Today we are going to talk about […]

Introducing uberAgent for Splunk

uberAgent for Splunk takes Windows monitoring a step further. uberAgent does not just collect data – it gives you the information that matters. Other monitoring products rely on the performance counters built into Windows. uberAgent has its own metrics, covering key aspects of user experience and system performance.

How to Easily Monitor System Performance with the new DiskLED 1.1

DiskLED is a small tool that displays performance counter data using an animated system tray icon. The new version 1.1 comes with a graphical configuration dialog that lets you choose from all performance counters available on the local system – you can monitor network throughput just as easily as hard disk activity or memory usage. […]

DiskLED – A Flexible Hard Disk and General System Activity Indicator System Tray Applet

What do you do when your computer reacts sluggishly to even the simplest commands? You probably look at its hard disk LED to determine if the disk is busy, because if it is, the only thing that really helps is waiting (apart from buying a faster disk or SSD). Problem solved – if you are […]

Tag: Monitoring

resticprofile Backup Monitoring Grafana Dashboard

Grafana Setup Guide With Automatic HTTPS & OAuth SSO via Authelia

Adobe Acrobat & Photoshop: Network Connection Target Hosts

Citrix CVAD: Network Connection Target Hosts

Windows OS, Services & Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts

MS Office & Teams: Network Connection Target Hosts

Application Network Connection Monitoring With Splunk & uberAgent

What DNS Pointer Records and Tweetups Have in Common

Now you can PROVE that it’s not Citrix but the backend!

uberAgent Now Monitors RES Workspace Manager Logon Times, Too

Boot IO Analysis with uberAgent for Splunk 1.5

Application Usage Metering with uberAgent for Splunk

uberAgent for Splunk: User Experience

uberAgent for Splunk: Dynamic Application Identification

Introducing uberAgent for Splunk

How to Easily Monitor System Performance with the new DiskLED 1.1

DiskLED – A Flexible Hard Disk and General System Activity Indicator System Tray Applet