With the current SAP Cloud Platform tools, you can configure email notifications for critical metrics of custom JMX checks and availability checks. This configuration is applicable for metrics of a running SAP Cloud Platform Java application. For more information, see Configuring Availability Checks from the Console Client and JMX Checks.
However, you might want to be notified for other critical metrics of running SAP Cloud Platform Java applications. Furthermore, you might need to perform healing operations when such metrics can cause issues such as low performance or crashes. This tutorial is to help you implement a notification application that will watch each metric for a critical state, will notify you via email or SMS when such metrics are received, and will take actions to fix the issues caused by such metrics. Furthermore, the Java applications that the notification application receives metrics from can be located in different accounts and data centers. The communication between this custom notification application and the SAP Cloud Platform Java applications is as follows:
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The notification application requests metrics of a Java application from the monitoring service with a REST API call every minute. Note: The calls are sent per minute because the Java application metrics are refreshed each minute. For more information about the REST call, see Monitoring API.
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The monitoring service sends back a JSON response with a status code 200 OK. The response contains the metrics of the requested application and the states of these metrics.
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The notification application parses the JSON response and checks for critical metrics.
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The notification application notifies you by the following conditions:
a. A metric is critical for the first time – you receive a notification email.
b. A metric is critical three times – you receive an SMS. -
The notification application checks if metrics have been critical three times and takes actions for application self-healing (the Java application is restarted).
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The notification application repeats steps 1 to 5 for all other Java applications.
Download this project locally and follow the instructions in Tutorial: Implementing a Notification Application.
Ivaylo Ruskov
Nikola Simeonov
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