sFlow-RT™ incorporates InMon's asynchronous analytics technology (patent pending), delivering real-time visibility to Software Defined Networking (SDN), DevOps and Orchestration stacks and enabling new classes of performance aware application such as load balancing, DDoS protection, and workload placement.

The sFlow-RT analytics engine receives a continuous telemetry stream from sFlow Agents embedded in network devices, hosts and applications and converts them into actionable metrics, accessible through the RESTflow™ API. The RESTflow API makes it easy for to configure customized measurements, retrieve metrics, set thresholds, and receive notifications. Applications can be external, written in any language that supports HTTP/REST calls, or internal, using sFlow-RT's embedded JavaScript/ECMAScript.

Network visibility is essential to understanding the interaction between scale-out services running on cloud infrastructure. By combining network, host and application monitoring within an integrated analytics pipeline, sFlow-RT provides visibility into applications and the server and network resources needed to sustain performance.

Download

Visit sFlow-RT.com to download sFlow-RT software and applications.

Support

Please post questions, suggestions and applications to the sFlow-RT group.

Commercial use

Contact sales@inmon.com to discuss commercial licensing options for sFlow-RT.

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http://sflow-rt.com/download.php

Download and install

sFlow-RT requires Java 1.7+. The following commands download, install and run the software:

wget http://www.inmon.com/products/sFlow-RT/sflow-rt.tar.gz

tar -xvzf sflow-rt.tar.gz

cd sflow-rt

./start.sh

Alternatively, the following command runs sFlow-RT in a Docker container (see sflow/sflow-rt):

docker run -p 8008:8008 -p 6343:6343/udp -d sflow/sflow-rt

Use a web browser to connect to http://localhost:8008 to interact with the REST API.

The software is also available as RPM and DEB packages:

• sflow-rt-<version>.noarch.rpm
• sflow-rt_<version>.deb

Software is installed under the path /usr/local/sflow-rt/ and log files are directed to /usr/local/sflow-rt/log/sflow-rt-<N>.log

Note There are no access controls built into sFlow-RT. However, HTTP access can be restricted to the local host by settings the http.hostname property to 127.0.0.1 and a reverse proxy can then be used to secure remote access to the API. For example, the following Apache configuration settings make the interface accessible on port 80 under the path /sflow-rt/

<IfModule mod_proxy.c>

  ProxyRequests off

  ProxyVia off

  ProxyPass        /sflow-rt/ http://127.0.0.1:8008/ retry=0 timeout=5

  ProxyPassReverse /sflow-rt/ http://127.0.0.1:8008/

</IfModule>

<Location /sflow-rt/>

# insert access policy

</Location>

Please read and accept the License Agreement before downloading this software.

Applications

The following command (run in the sFlow-RT home directory) downloads and installs an application:

./get-app.sh sflow-rt dashboard-example

The following applications are currently available on GitHub:

Writing Applications provides an introduction describing the structure of an sFlow-RT application. Post information on new applications to the sFlow-RT group to have them listed.

Support

Please post questions, suggestions and applications to the sFlow-RT group.

Production use

Contact sales@inmon.com to discuss production licensing options for sFlow-RT.