Logging performance stats externally

Question

Can I programatically obtain the kind of performance stats
you see in the management interface, e.g. get a count of number of
connections, number of active streams etc.
We use tools like munin and nagios for server tracking, I'd
like to integrate FMS into this.
Can anyone recommend the best way to go about this?

Answer 1

I suppose the best way to do it depends on the structure of
your application and what data you need to collect. Data about
connected clients and streams can be obtained through your
application, but if you want to track data transfer, bandwidth
usage, license usage, etc.... you'll need to make a connection to
the admin service.
You can use a .swf to retrieve the data as FMS-Developer
mentioned, but you can also have that happen on the server side.
You can build an FMS app that will run with no connected clients,
and report server stats back to your remoting service, XML socket
server, or to any app server that accepts http post/get requests.
If you don't use an .swf, you just need to design the app so it
doesn't shut down when the server does garbage collection (return
false in your onAppStop handler), and you'd need to start it
through the admin console.
Since most of the http side backend I do is PHP I prefer to
use AMFPHP for things like this, but there are a world of
otheroptions. If you provide some detail about the data you need to
collect and how you need to collect it, and about your
server/application server/web service model, maybe we can come up
with ideas about the best option.