Dashboard applications to monitor experiment activities at sites

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 219; no. 6; p. 062003
• Main Authors: Andreeva, Julia, Belforte, Stefano, Boehm, Max, Casajus, Adrian, Flix, Josep, Gaidioz, Benjamin, Grigoras, Costin, Kokoszkiewicz, Lukasz, Lanciotti, Elisa, Rocha, Ricardo, Saiz, Pablo, Santinelli, Roberto, Sidorova, Irina, Sciabà, Andrea, Tsaregorodtsev, Andrei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.04.2010
• Subjects: Computer networks; Dashboards; Distributed processing; Monitoring; Physics; User requirements
• ISSN: 1742-6596; 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/219/6/062003

In the framework of a distributed computing environment, such as WLCG, monitoring has a key role in order to keep under control activities going on in sites located in different countries and involving people based in many different sites. To be able to cope with such a large scale heterogeneous infrastructure, it is necessary to have monitoring tools providing a complete and reliable view of the overall performance of the sites. Moreover, the structure of a monitoring system critically depends on the object to monitor and on the users it is addressed to. In this article we will describe two different monitoring systems both aimed to monitor activities and services provided in the WLCG framework, but designed in order to meet the requirements of different users: Site Status Board has an overall view of the services available in all the sites supporting an experiment, whereas Siteview provides a complete view of all the activities going on at a site, for all the experiments supported by the site.