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OBIEE Monitoring and Diagnostics with InfluxDB and Grafana
In this article I’m going to look at collecting time-series metrics into the InfluxDB database and visualising them in snazzy Grafana dashboards. The datasets I’m going to use are OS metrics (CPU,...
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An Introduction to Analysing ODI Runtime Data Through Elasticsearch and Kibana 4
An important part of working with ODI is analysing the performance when it runs, and identifying steps that might be inefficient as well as variations in runtime against a baseline trend. The Operator...
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Instrumenting OBIEE Database Connections For Improved Performance Diagnostics
Nearly four years ago I wrote a blog post entitled “Instrumenting OBIEE – The Final Chapter”. With hindsight, that title suffix (“The Final Chapter”) may have been a tad presumptuous and naïve of me...
View ArticleOBIEE nqcmd Tidbits
nqcmd is the ODBC command line tool that always has, and hopefully always will, shipped with OBIEE. It enables you to manually fire queries directly at the BI Server, rather than through the usual way...
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Lifting the Lid on OBIEE Internals with Linux Diagnostics Tools
There comes the point in any sufficiently complex or difficult problem diagnosis that the log files in OBIEE alone are not sufficient for building up a complete picture of what’s going on. Even with...
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Analysing ODI performance with Flame Graphs
Flame Graphs are a visualisation that I learnt about through the excellent Linux systems performance work of Brendan Gregg, and saw Luca Canali talk about recently at UKOUG Tech 14. They’re a brilliant...
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BI Forum 2015 Preview — OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with the...
I’m pleased to be presenting at both of the Rittman Mead BI Forums this year; in Brighton it’ll be my fourth time, whilst Atlanta will be my first, and my first trip to the city too. I’ve heard great...
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Using the ELK Stack to Analyse Donor’s Choose Data
Donor’s Choose is an online charity in America through which teachers can post details of projects that need funding and donors can give money towards them. The data from the charity since it began in...
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What’s New in OBIEE 11.1.1.9 for Systems Administrators and Developers
After over two years since the last major release of OBIEE, Oracle released version 11.1.1.9 in May 2015. You can find the installers here and documentation here. 11.1.1.9 is termed the “terminal...
View ArticleSecurity patches released for OBIEE 11.1.1.7/11.1.1.9, and ODI DQ 11.1.1.3
Oracle issued their quarterly Critical Patch Update yesterday, and with it notice of several security issues of note: The most serious for OBIEE (CVE-2013-2186) rates 7.5 (out of 10) on the CVSS scale,...
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OBIEE BI Server Cache Management Strategies
The OBIEE BI Server cache can be one of the most effective ways of improving response times of OBIEE dashboards. By using data already in the cache it reduces load on the database, the network, and the...
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Managing the OBIEE BI Server Cache from ODI 12c
I wrote recently about the OBIEE BI Server Cache and how useful it can be, but how important it is to manage it properly, both in the purging of stale data and seeding of new. In this article I want to...
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Using the BI Server Metadata Web Service for Automated RPD Modifications
A little-known new feature of OBIEE 11g is a web service interface to the BI Server. Called the “BI Server Metadata Web Service” it gives a route into making calls into the BI Server using SOAP-based...
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Forays into Kafka – Logstash transport / centralisation
The holy trinity of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) are a powerful trio of tools for data discovery and systems diagnostics. In a nutshell, they enable you to easily search through your log...
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Introducing the Rittman Mead OBIEE Performance Analytics Service
Fix Your OBIEE Performance Problems Today OBIEE is a powerful analytics tool that enables your users to make the most of the data in your organisation. Ensuring that expected response times are met is...
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Forays into Kafka – Enabling Flexible Data Pipelines
One of the defining features of “Big Data” from a technologist’s point of view is the sheer number of tools and permutations at one’s disposal. Do you go Flume or Logstash? Avro or Thrift? Pig or...
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Driving OBIEE User Engagement with Enhanced Usage Tracking for OBIEE
Measuring and monitoring user interactions and behaviour with OBIEE is a key part of Rittman Mead’s User Engagement Service. By understanding and proving how users are engaging the system we can...
View ArticleUsing Linux Control Groups to Constrain Process Memory
Linux Control Groups (cgroups) are a nifty way to limit the amount of resource, such as CPU, memory, or IO throughput, that a process or group of processes may use. Frits Hoogland wrote a great blog...
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OBIEE 12c – Repository Password Corruption Issue
Here at Rittman Mead we’ve been working with OBIEE 12c for some time now, as part of the beta programme and more recently with clients looking to get the most out an upgrade to OBIEE 12c. We’ve also...
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OBIEE Performance – Why Metrics Matter (and…Announcing obi-metrics-agent v2!)
One of the first steps to improve OBIEE performance is to determine why it is slow. That may sound obvious—can’t fix it if you don’t know what you’re fixing, right? Unfortunately, the “Drunk Man...
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