Monitor RAM and CPU

Question

Hi all, 
 Is there any way to monitor RAM and CPU in a cloud environment, in order to know if an upgrade is necessary? 
 I know that support team will send a notification when the memory reach a critical point, but what we want is warn our client well in advance that an upgrade is required. 
 Thank you.

mk · Accepted Answer

Your best bet is to contact Appian Cloud Services (ACS) to see if there are any options for real time monitoring. However, if ram/cpu usage gets high (above 80% in our experience) ACS contacts you (or the client) about it.

Have you looked into the reports that Appian Health Check generates? While it's not even close to real time monitoring, you get an average over a period of time in the reports so that you would be aware of the general cpu/ram usage on your cloud server.

abhinavg712 · Answer

Try using the shared component : Log Reader 
 https://forum.appian.com/suite/sites/shared-components/page/shared-components/record/lMBCLGOdlMUpdGVqW3dQaIKmclBmvvNEj8vu_cjb7T-5YiPr4Fu8ly5Yj1s09uenE4RYzA8zKyx7eiUhu-vLnPrTl8vZW_jB_p9h2a3VMXntlKTqA/view/summary 
 The app also contains a process that checks details from the system.csv and alerts administrators if memory or cpu utilization exceeds a threshold (and represents the results as another record). 
 Do perform health check regularly in the non business hours to catch Infrastructure and Analysis Metrics as they give you the fair idea for your installation across a large time window and also helps in the process sizing/ capacity planning for the engines. 
 https://community.appian.com/w/the-appian-playbook/201/using-process-sizing-for-engine-capacity-planning

Mike Cichy · Answer

The question is not about real-time monitoring but just knowing what the current usage is. 
 
I recommend running Appian Health Check: community.appian.com/.../using-the-appian-health-check. 
It will provide you with a nice graph of your resource usage. 
You can always look at the system.csv log available to you via the interface (<appian_url>/suite/logs - > data-metrics -> system.csv

Luis de Niz · Answer

I would also recommend exploring Log Streaming as a solution for your use case: docs.appian.com/.../Log_Streaming_for_Appian_Cloud.html 
 
Customers can receive system.csv logs in real-time to a central location in their network. This log contains metrics related to CPU and memory of your Appian Cloud instance.