This is the support page to my presentation for the Western New York Blackboard Users Group in January 2015. Use the links below to review the content mentioned in the presentation which can be viewed in Blackboard Collaborate.

Piwik Information | Kibana/Logstash Information | Web Relic Information
AppDynamics Information | Custom Scripts for Blackboard Learn

 

 

Piwik Information

Links

Piwik Website – http://piwik.org/
Piwik User Guides – http://piwik.org/docs/
Piwik Demo – http://demo.piwik.org/
Piwik and Blackboard Blog Posts –

Recommended Video Playlist – (see below)

Installation Instructions – The Piwik website provides many good installation guides and links to third party developers who can offer installations as well.

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Kibana / Logstash Information

Links

Overview of Kibana by Elasticsearch.org – http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/
Kibana’s GitHub Repository – https://github.com/elasticsearch/kibana
A blog review of Kibana – http://rashidkpc.github.io/Kibana/
Query and filter examples used to search through the data in Logstash and Kibana – http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/kibana/current/working-with-queries-and-filters.html
Since I mentioned grok, here are examples from logstash on how to use grok to parse data within logstash for use with Kibana – http://logstash.net/docs/1.4.2/filters/grok
Here is an awesome grok parser that lets you copy a line of code from your logs and then use grok to parse it the way you want – http://grokdebug.herokuapp.com/
Here’s a Google Code page on grok including many examples – https://code.google.com/p/semicomplete/wiki/Grok

Recommended Video Playlist – (see below)

 

Installation Instructions

Overview of Kibana Installation by Elasticsearch.org – http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/kibana/installation/

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New Relic Information

Links

NewRelic Site – http://www.newrelic.com/

Recommended Video Playlist – (see below)

 

Installation Instructions

Help should be provided by the company, but a fellow Blackboard Admin, Jorge Carrasco, has provided a great installation guide – http://goo.gl/1OiIOU – I added some additional information of Linux users – http://goo.gl/HjH8i4

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AppDynamics Information

Links

AppDynamics Site – http://www.appdynamics.com/

Recommended Video Playlist – (see below)

Here is a short video of an AppDynamics Tour while integrated with Blackboard Learn.

 

Recommended Video Playlist – (see below)
Installation Instructions 
After some documentation and help from AppDynamics technicians, we were able to get the application up and running successfully. The documentation I used can be found here.

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Custom Scripts & Tips

Links

My blog post about custom scripts and cleaning up your Blackboard Learn instance.

Speeding Up Cases with Blackboard Support

Example Script Files

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