Yearly Archives: 2015

Spring Dependency Injection in Mule FunctionalTestCase

By | December 13, 2015

In this article I will show how to accomplish dependency injection of fields in tests that inherit from the Mule class FunctionalTestCase; both of dependencies to Spring beans and of values from property files. Background On an earlier occasion, I have attempted to use the standard @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class) annotation in order to be able to have Spring… Read More »

Alerting with the ELK Stack and Elastalert

By | December 6, 2015

Based on my article on JMX Monitoring with the ELK Stack and the article on creating a Docker image with Elastalert, I will now combine these and add the missing part, alerting, to the monitoring and alerting stack I have worked my way towards. Preparations The different configuration files used in this article’s example available… Read More »

Creating an Elastalert Docker Image on Docker Hub

By | October 19, 2015

In this article I will show how I created a Docker image for Elastalert and create an automated build for the image on Docker Hub. Among other things, I will show how to wait on other services that a service running in a Docker container depends on. Introduction For those who are not familiar with Elastalert… Read More »

Running Out of Diskspace with Mule 3.7

By | October 13, 2015

The other day I ran out of diskspace in a server on which I ran a Mule 3.7 instance. After some searching I found some quite large files in the $MULE-HOME/bin directory which turned out to be heap-dump files. The cause for this turned out to be an additional wrapper parameter that is present in… Read More »

JMX Monitoring with Docker and the ELK Stack

By | September 27, 2015

This article will show how to monitor a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) running in a Docker container using JMX and the ELK stack, consisting of Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, running in another Docker container. In addition there will be a simple example on how to use Docker Compose. In the example I will run an… Read More »

Coursera – Introduction to Ableton Live

By | August 26, 2015

“Introduction”, eh? Doesn’t sound too exciting. For some reason I signed up anyway and I must admit that my preconceptions was all wrong. Well, “Introduction to Ableton Live” is a course suitable for people that have never used Ableton Live before, but despite already having had some experience with Live, I did learn quite a… Read More »

Creating a Docker Image with Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana

By | August 23, 2015

In this article I will create a Docker image that contains the Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana – more commonly known as the ELK stack. This Docker image will be based on the Docker image with Java 8 on Ubuntu that I created in an earlier article. I am aware of there being Docker images containing… Read More »