Tag Archives: Merlin

SOPA means garbage in Swedish…

Posted on January 19, 2012 by janj

Sopa is the Swedish name for garbage or a very underperforming person. I think that summarizes my thought on the SOPA discussion. Here is great article that is well worth reading: http://mashable.com/2012/01/17/sopa-dangerous-opinion/ / Jan

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Why distributed monitoring matters!

Posted on August 24, 2011 by janj

If you have all your data-systems in your basement and all your users internally or externally in the same building – you can stop reading now and save time:) If not – then you might find this interesting…

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Merlin 1.0.0-beta1

Posted on December 10, 2010 by ae

And so it has come. The day when Merlin outgrows its infancy is at hand.

The rite of passage into adulthood was smoother than expected, but not
without minor bumps. As with people, those bumps made the code stronger. Continue reading →

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op5 Monitor 5.2.0 released!

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Peter Östlin

op5 Monitor 5.2 is about to be released to the public! By the time you read this it’s probably already out there . This release is mostly about our new method for distributed, redundant and load balanced setups but we … Continue reading →

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Eventblocking madness and more stresstesting

Posted on October 25, 2010 by ae

Ok, so I couldn’t quite be satisfied with the stress-test results I saw in the last post. Like all perfectionists, I always want more. More, I tell you, MORE! So what the hell have I done now? Well, the long … Continue reading →

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Merlin under stress

Posted on October 23, 2010 by ae

So, we finally got the stress-test systems freed up from op5 logserver testing so we could run some performance-tests on Merlin. Previously, all such tests have been done on VMWare guest systems, which aren’t well suited to the task due … Continue reading →

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Beta code in production = win!

Posted on October 14, 2010 by ae

Today we got our first sales announcement where a customer chose op5 based on the distributed and loadbalanced features added to op5 Monitor by the Merlin project. I’m quite proud about that actually Continue reading →

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Configsync, performance-data and adventures in python

Posted on September 27, 2010 by ae

So, Merlin is nearing its first stable release with distributed monitoring. Development has been erratic but rapid. The poor beta testers that have tried to keep up with me have struggled in vain. It’s been good though. Continue reading →

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Merlin goes distributed

Posted on September 7, 2010 by ae

Since a couple of weeks ago (3, to be precise), two distributed merlin setups have been running non-stop in our lab without hiccups. I am, ofcourse, quite proud of this. The two scenarios we’re currently testing for is 2*peers and 1*master+2*slaves. Continue reading →

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Great things to come in op5 Monitor 5.2

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Klas Bernehjält

Right now the op5 development team is steaming ahead, working hard on our next, awaited release of op5 Monitor. If our last release was filled to the brim with “eye candy” and improvements of the user experience, this upcoming release is filled with very useful features and functions! Continue reading →

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