Monitoring the status, statistics, and performance of a pipeline
is important to keeping it running, balancing data loads, and spotting potential
problems before they occur. The application monitor works with an SNMP agent
running on the pipeline node to communicate the status and statistics of pipelines,
which are then displayed in the Configuration Console.
Before you can view status and statistics about a pipeline, the following
must be successfully completed:
- The pipeline is installed and configured on its pipeline node.
- The pipeline is registered in the Configuration Console on the Pipelines tab
and is configured for monitoring.
- An SNMP agent is installed and configured on the host machine.
- Both the SNMP agent and the pipeline are started on the pipeline node.
- The SNMP agent started must use the global port number configured during
installation.
- The pipeline must be started using the exact pipeline name registered
on the Pipelines tab, including case.
Note: (Windows platforms only) If you start the pipeline as a service, you
can view status information in the Windows Event Viewer that you cannot view
elsewhere.
Status and statistic information
Once a pipeline
is configured for monitoring and begins processing data, you can see useful
status and statistical information about the pipeline in the Configuration
Console:
- Status and performance statistics (such as transactions per minute) in
the Pipeline Status tab
- UMF exceptions on the UMF Exceptions tab
- Application monitor events (such as when the pipeline starts, stops, or
experiences errors) on the Events tab
- New identities added to the system in the last seven days from data processed
by this pipeline on the New Identities tab
- Reports showing more detailed statistics about the data loaded and processed
by the pipeline on the Reports tab