Following on from the work I did originally to test tracing MQTT flows with Instana using NodeRED I wanted to look at using a simple NodeJS and WebUI set up. This was partly to support an engagement I am working on but also to satisfy my curiosity :-) So lets…

One of the projects I have worked on implemented IBM Message Gateway running within an OpenShift Cluster. IBM Message Gateway comes with its own “WebUI” for management and monitoring but I was asked if it would be possible to monitor IBM Message Gateway using Instana. …

Over the last few months I’ve been increasing my knowledge and skills around Instana and recently I had the opportunity to explore its Db2 monitoring capabilities. The situation I was facing was one of sporadic performance issues with heavy queries running against a Db2 Warehouse database. The database contains several…

Following on from the work I did using NodeRED to try and trace MQTT traffic using Instana I wanted to take things a step further and look at tracing traffic from a Mobile app though to existing NodeRED and Message Gateway infrastructure (deployed to OpenShift on the IBM Cloud). Given…

Instana is a recent addition to the IBM family and after an initial exploration of its awesome capabilities I wanted to dig deeper. Based on this I decided that I would like to look at how I could use Instana to trace flows running over the MQTT protocol. The reason…

I have been a long term fan of UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) and when I got the chance to work with my colleague Steve Arnold on deploying to OpenShift I jumped at the chance. Steve had done all the heavy lifting of getting UCD deployed and you can see his work…

I have long been a fan of both App Connect Enterprise [ACE](formally IBM Integration Broker) and NodeRED and as I started to experiment with both under OpenShift I started to think about combining both. My rationale was that there are times when I am working with flows in ACE that…

In the begining… Since completing our work on running NodeRED on OpenShift (see here), Mark Taylor and I have continued to look at what else we can do with NodeRED. One of the threads that Mark progressed was looking at how we can improve our deployment / management process to align more with…

In a recent engagement I’ve been working on hosting a NodeRED instance in an OpenShift cluster. I thought it might be useful to share my experiences here. The requirement I had was to implement a secured instance of NodeRED running on HTTPS with non self-signed certificates. Working with a colleague…