System Alerting and Monitoring

Description

System Alerting and Monitoring (SAM) provides a monitoring solution for instances of InterSystems IRIS® data platform version 2020.1 and later. Whether your application runs on a local mirrored pair or in the cloud with multiple application and data servers, you can use SAM to monitor your InterSystems IRIS instances.

Group your InterSystems IRIS instances into one or more clusters, then observe a high-level summary of your application performance. Use the SAM web application to view real-time performance metrics for your clusters and instances. Keep track of the alerts SAM sends when a metric crosses a user-defined threshold. SAM packages all your monitoring needs behind an easy-to-use web interface. SAM also provides a REST APIOpens in a new tab for monitoring your instances programmatically.

How It Works

The core System Alerting and Monitoring (SAM) application is built on an InterSystems IRIS instance called the SAM Manager. Using cloud-native software, the SAM Manager collects and stores performance data and alerts from the InterSystems IRIS instances you choose to monitor.

SAM integrates the SAM Manager with these multiple open-source technologies, augmenting their features with enterprise resiliency:

• Prometheus, an efficient cloud-native monitoring tool, collects time series data at regular intervals from all your target InterSystems IRIS instances. The SAM Manager stores these metrics, enabling high availability and scalability features not available in default Prometheus databases.

• Grafana, a world-class metrics visualization tool, presents this data in graphs that make it easy to examine the state of your instances.

• Alertmanager aggregates Prometheus alerts, which you define and configure from the SAM web application, with InterSystems IRIS alerts, which are pre-configured on the target instances.

• Nginx provides a web server which allows these components to communicate. It also serves the SAM web application, which provides the graphical interface for configuring SAM and monitoring your instances.

A container engine (either Docker Compose or Podman Compose) runs SAM Manager alongside these applications simultaneously, each in its own container. When you run SAM, the container engine starts each of these containers based on the contents of the SAM docker-compose.yml file.

Available Versions

The following table provides details about the versions of System Alerting and Monitoring (SAM) which are currently available:

For help choosing and setting up a SAM image, see Deploy a System Alerting and Monitoring Image.