With the acceleration of digitalization, ECM software is at the heart of organizational resilience. However, while most companies have digitized their document management, those systems may not be keeping up with the increasingly rapid changes in technology. The availability of proper monitoring is crucial to keeping systems up and running and performant. Our preconfigured open-source monitoring tooling allows you to keep a close eye on how your Alfresco solution is performing.

1. How to solve
your toughest
performance issues in
Alfresco
15-Sep-21
September 15,2021

2. Ground rules

3. DevOps Engineer @Xenit
Speakers
Hannes Van Camp
CEO@Xenit
Ronny Timmermans

4. How to solve your toughest performance issues in Alfresco
• The top6 qualities any ECMshould bring
• Open-Source Monitoringtool for Alfresco
• Alfred Ops– Technology Stack
• LiveDemo
• Alfred Opsroadmap, tools anduses cases
• Q&A
With the acceleration of digitalization, ECMsoftware is at the heartof organizational
resilience. However, while most companies havedigitized their document management,
those systems may not bekeeping upwith the increasingly rapid changes in technology.
Agenda

5. The Top 6 qualities any ECM should bring

6. Introducingthe concept of
“qualityof services”, where:
| 6
• Real time processes take precedence;
• User queries come second;
• Short queries arehandled firstbefore “long and circumstantial”
searches; and
• Ingestion of documents has alevel of priority.

7. Alfresco is (not) slow
One problem we consistently hear from ourcustomers is that “thesystem is slow”. Performance is a complicated factor andcan depend on many different components
typically outside ofthe control of the Alfresco support resources
• Performance depends on factors insideand outside of ACS
• Performance is a balance
• Quality of Service is a balance

8. Alfred Ops
Open-Source Monitoring Tooling
for Alfresco

9. The availability of proper monitoring is crucial tokeeping systems up andrunning andperformant. Ourpreconfigured open-source monitoring tooling allows you tokeep a
close eye on how yourAlfresco solution is performing.
Alfred Ops delivers system and application monitoring for running and optimizing Alfresco Enterprise Content
Managementplatform.

10. Alfred Ops in a nutshell
Instantly assess the
health of your
content platform
Address urgent
interventions or do
proactive
maintenance
Realtime security
andalerting

11. Let’s take a closer look at the suite

12. Alfred Ops– Technology Stack

13. • High customization, simplicity,and cost savings
• Capacityand performance reporting
• Better insights
Prometheus Dashboard – From metrics to insight

14. • Gain insights
• Build alerts that trigger custom actions
Kibana Dashboard - An open-source analytics and visualization platform

15. • Full visibility
• Clarity
• Collaboration
Grafana Dashboard – The analytics platform for all your metrics

16. • Capture what's important toyou
Alerta Dashboard – Flexible monitoring system

17. Live Demo

18. Alfred Ops Roadmap & Use Cases

19. Roadmap, tools & Use Cases
• Solr Tracing and Insight
• Timesend-to-endrequests = insight in Search performance
• Helps to optimize your Shardedsetup
• Case: Belgian insurancecompanyat 140M docs
• AlfredHeath processor (part of OPS)
• Regularloop over Alfresco to check completeness and correctness of Alfresco artefacts (Solr index, versions, renditions, thumbnails, ..)
• Pluggable
• Case: Frenchinsurancecompanyat > 60Mdocs
• Neat &Nifty: AdvancedAlfresco health check
• Relevant test and instrumentfor automatic restart
• Golden Oldie : Care4Alf: tool set for data control and batch repair
• Best of the Rest : Order of the Bee Support tooling!

20. (Sharded) Solr Tracing with Zipkin

21. Solr Tracing with Zipkin

22. Solr Tracing with Zipkin

23. Solr Tracing with Zipkin

24. Solr Tracing with Zipkin

25. Alfred Health Processor
Monitor, reportand repairAlfresco(data) state

26. Alfred Health Processor
• Health processoris a"platform"module,intowhich externalscanalsoplug in their owncheckers, fixersorreporters.
• Usetheinfrastructureofthe healthprocessortodoyourownchecksortosend totheir ownmonitoringsystems.
• This canbedonewithout "forking"health processor or building yourcodeintohealthprocessor,which canbe
doneperfectlythroughaseparateAMP.
• Nongeneric neitherreusablecheckscanbeadded(plugged in) forparticularcases.
• Technical parameters:
• checkers,fixers& reporterstobeactivated

27. Out of the box Health checks
• Contentvalidation(built forOUP):
• checks thatall contentis in thecontentstore
• Solrindexvalidation(built forMNT):
• checks thatall contentthatshouldbeindexedis alsoin Solr
• Fixer fornodesmissing fromthe index
• Fixerfornodesthatareduplicatedin theindex
• Alfredtelemetry reporterwritesmetricstoAlfred Telemetry(numberofunhealthydocumentsandsuch), so theycanbesent to a
monitoringsystem
• Logreporter:Writesdetails aboutunhealthydocumentsto thealfrescologs,so thattheycanbeinvestigated

28. Out of the box Health checks

29. Q&A

30. Alfred Ops– Try it out

31. Contact Details
Thank You
Telephone: +32(0)16 891 800
Email: sales@xenit.eu
Website: www.xenit.eu