Generic Reactive Monitoring Agent

[surgop]

Developing reactive applications over streaming pipelines are very popular in recent days. Many opensource frameworks that are available in the market (Ex: SpringBoot reactive apis, Eclipse .Vertx....) for developing reactive applications

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/reference/html/web-reactive.html
https://vertx.io/docs/vertx-reactive-streams/java/

Since the reactive monitoring are very specific to technological frameworks, i don't see any common reactive monitoring agent which supports all the platform frameworks.

The following can be done as a part of generic reactive monitoring agent.

• Identify the common reactive metrics which supports all the technological frameworks. This is bit tough initially, but we can arrive at common metrics list
• Create a testing framework which support different frameworks which exposes the common metrics
• Expand the metrics list over a period of time based on the knowledge earned during development phase
• Develop the agent in jar based deployable format, so that it can be easy to run the agent without external dependencies
• Develop a web UI to expose metrics in rich dashboards or expose an option to integrate with SnappyFlow
• The agent jar can be easily integrate with Prometheus based monitoring platforms

Based on comments, i can come up with the initial development approach for the following applications

• Event bus (messaging)
• Http servers
• Web sockets
• Datagram sockets
• Thread pool
• Net client/Server
• ....

[aswinbh]

@surgop Thanks for the proposal. can you please add more details with other sections as suggested in https://github.com/maplelabs/FOSS-Projects/blob/master/create-proposal.md ?