Lights and Shapes

#Dtrace

Sanity Checking with the pid Provider

I am not crazy right?

It has been a while since I posted an entry, so I thought I would type up a short post on some fun with the DTrace pid Provider. I was recently working with stud on SmartOS and I wanted to send the logs off to the syslog facility local4. So I modified …

Sanity Checking with the pid Provider

Splunk Performance on SmartOS

Debugging splunk performance issues in a live environment.

Since joining Voxer to do performance engineering, I have also become the owner of our splunk instances. We rely on splunk heavily to monitor our infrastructure just as most companies do. It is an important tool …

Splunk Performance on SmartOS