#System Alerting and Monitoring (SAM)

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InterSystems System Alerting and Monitoring (SAM) is a cluster monitoring solution for 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 application.

Additional resources:
•‎ Documentation
•‎ GitHub repo
•‎ Easy start: Viewing & Customizing Metrics with SAM

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Question Oliver Wilms · Aug 22, 2021

I want to try SAM in AWS. I followed these steps:

docker pull store/intersystems/sam:1.0.0.115

git clone intersystems-community/sam: System Alerting and Monitoring (SAM) (github.com)

git clone https://github.com/intersystems-community/sam

tar zpxvf sam-<version>.tar.gz

tar zpxvf sam-1.0.0.115-unix.tar.gz

$ cd sam-<version>

cd /home/ec2-user/git/sam/sam-1.0.0.115-unix/

$ ./start.sh

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Article Simon Sha · Mar 19, 2021 2m read

cAdvisor (short for container Advisor) analyzes and exposes resource usage and performance data from running containers. cAdvisor exposes Prometheus metrics out of the box. 

https://prometheus.io/docs/guides/cadvisor/

Prometheus is integrated in SAM. This makes it possible to leverage the cAdvisor metrics and expose them via Prometheus and Grafana.

Since cAdvisor listens on port 8080, which conflicts with the Nginx port, you can choose to change the Nginx port to accommodate that.

Configuration Steps:

1. Change nginx port.

modify nghix.conf:

    server {
        listen 9991; 

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Article Michael Braam · Jun 2, 2021 3m read

InterSystems SAM is a great tool to monitor your InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS For Health clusters on prem or in a cloud environment. This article describes how you can implement a customized alert handler. This is currently an undocumented and most likely an unknown feature of InterSystems SAM. With future releases it will be probably made easier to leverage this useful concept.

In the interest of shortness, I will only mention InterSystems IRIS in this article, but the following applies to InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS For Health. 

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InterSystems Official Luca Ravazzolo · Jul 2, 2020

GA releases are now available for the first version (v1.0) of InterSystems System Alerting and Monitoring (InterSystems SAM for short)  InterSystems SAM v1.0 provides a modern monitoring solution for InterSystems IRIS based products. It allows high-level views of clusters and single-node drilled down metrics-visualization together with alerts notifications.  This first version provides visualization for more than one hundred InterSystems IRIS kernel metrics, and users can extend the default-supplied Grafana template to their liking. V1.0 is meant to be a simple and intuitive baseline. Help us

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Article Luca Ravazzolo · Jul 14, 2020 3m read

Hi All,

With this article, I would like to show you how easily and dynamically System Alerting and Monitoring(or SAM for short) can be configured. The use case could be that of a fast and agile CI/CD provisioning pipeline where you want to run your unit-tests but also stress-tests and you would want to quickly be able to see if those tests are successful or how they are stressing the systems and your application (the InterSystems IRIS backend SAM API is extendable for your APM implementation). 

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InterSystems Official Luca Ravazzolo · May 28, 2020

Preview releases are now available for the first version (v1.0) of InterSystems System Alerting and Monitoring (InterSystems SAM for short).  InterSystems SAM v1.0 provides a modern monitoring solution for InterSystems IRIS-based products. It allows high-level views of clusters and single-node drilled down metrics-visualization together with alerts notifications.  This first version provides visualization for more than one hundred InterSystems IRIS kernel metrics, and users can extend the default-supplied Grafana template to their liking. V1.0 is meant to be a simple and intuitive baseline.

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