Kieker 1.3 released

Today, we released version 1.3 of our Kieker framework for continuous monitoring and analysis of software systems.

New Features:

  • Added support for periodic samplers
  • Added support for monitoring system-level statistics based on the Sigar API
  • MonitoringController no longer restricted to singleton instance
  • Added support for custom time sources
  • Improved configuration management
  • Added named pipe reader/writer (for passing monitoring records directly within same JVM)
  • MonitoringController accessible as JMX MBean

API changes

  • The format of the kieker.monitoring.properties changed!
  • Custom writers will need to be adjusted to a changed interface
  • Minor changes in the MonitoringController interface