Monitoring activity

The manager user interface allows you to monitor all i2 TextChart Server activity for performance analysis, or to know when an error has occurred.

System overview (Dashboard)

To see an overview of the operation of the i2 TextChart Server system, navigate to the Dashboard page:


System dashboard

The panels in this display are updated every few seconds. They provide the following information:

Panel

Description

Clusters

Shows the number of clusters that are active and ready to accept documents.

Workers

Shows the number of worker nodes that are active, relative to the number of registered nodes.

Monitor

Shows the amount of data queued for processing. If a maximum queue size has been specified, shows the percentage of that size that is queued. If no maximum size is set, shows the percentage of disk space used on the file system where the documents are queued.

Errors

Shows the number of processing errors that have occurred.

Throughput

Shows the overall throughput performance of the i2 TextChart Server system since manager startup.

Data

Shows the amount of data and the number of documents that have been processed through the i2 TextChart Server system since manager startup.

Real-time monitoring (Monitor)

To see a real-time graphical view of system performance, navigate to the Monitor page:


System monitor

The panels show different aspects of system performance:

  • System: Shows thread utilization across the entire system.

  • Clusters: Shows thread utilization on a per-cluster basis.

  • Queue: Shows the overall amount of data that has been queued for processing.

Errors

If any errors occur during document processing, a message appears in the Errors page:


System errors

The panel shows when the error occurred, which cluster and worker node it happened on, the name of the file being processed, and a message indicating the type of error.

The table shows only the simple filename, but you can hover over the name to see the full path. Click the trashcan icon to clear the error log.