Insight

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Insight Application analysis

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Project Insight
• Architecture
• Insight Features
• Support Roadmap
• Case study Testimonials
• Demo

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Introduction

• Analysis of Run-time meta data
• Makes it robust
• Aids in trouble shooting
• Typical Meta-data
• Application Logs
• Resource Use Memory, CPU, Connection pools
• Logs contain data such as
• Control flow and processing logic
• Error details and maybe performance data

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Project Insight

• Tool/framework that contains a Visual log
  analyzer
• Created as a collaborative project and has
• Distribution List
• Repository
• Portal off J2EE community
• Reviews, Release process, support
• Focus is on helping the Developer achieve better
  productivity

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Architecture

• Components
• Mostly custom written
• Leverages Open Source
• Available versions
• Desktop
• Eclipse Plug-in
• Daemon (under Development)
• Statistics
• Used by more than 10 client projects
• Testimonials indicate up to 30 time saving for
  large applications

Offline analysis
Analysis UI
Preferences Framework
Summary And Details
Search
Preference UIs
Error Threshold verifier
Locate
Filter
Log Pattern
FileSets
Email notifier
Column Display
Proxy Settings
Appenders
Preference Manager
Parsed Events
Filtered Events
Preferences, attributes and persistence
Pagination
Receivers
Log Sources
Local
(S)FTP
Rolling Logs
Eclipse Plugin
Eclipse Plug-in
Http
Scheduler
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Insight Features

• View summary and detailed log event data

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Insight Features

• Supports pattern based log files

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Insight Features

• Non-mutating analysis
• Sort, Search text, event

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Insight Features

• Mutating data analysis
• Progressive filtering

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Insight Features

• Locate context of an event

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Insight Features

• Small foot print disk based caching
• Between 40 - 65 MB even after loading 110 000 log
  entries
• Loads 1000 entries in 375 ms
• Details on loaded namespaces

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Insight Features

• Permits customizing column for display

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Insight Features

• Supports Filesets Local, FTP, SFTP, HTTP

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Support Roadmap

• Email and Bugzilla
• User manual
• Release notes
• FAQ
• Discussion Forum
• Feature request and Roadmap

https//connectedminds.mindtree.com/Communities/j2
ee/Insight/
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Case study Testimonials

• Case Study
• Insight helped solve thread reuse issues in
  Tomcat in the Cendant STP project
• Testimonials
• I think this tool is a must for all those who
  have to play around with log files
• It saves 50-60 of your debugging time
• It has been useful in debugging one of the QA
  problems in an easy and efficient way
• It helped me in analyzing the exceptions better
• Filtering and Locate functionalities are very
  useful to drill down the error quickly. The
  preferences feature makes it very easy to connect
  to remote files.

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Questions ?
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