Monitoring

Monitoring#

Once deployed and running in a production environment, it is useful to know if the system is running smoothly or if users are having problems. There are a number of ways that can help in this.

Admin dashboard#

The Dashboard UI in the Admin area of VISA gives an overall view of the real-time usage of VISA.

Amongst other, the Dashboard give a quick view of

  • The number of instances

  • The number of sessions

  • The number of recently-active sessions

  • Latest instances

  • Latest active users

More information on Remote Desktop usage can be found in the Sessions UI of VISA too.

Email notifications#

VISA can be configured with an admin email address which will notify the admin every time a new instance is created.

Emails can also be sent whenever a error occurs in the VISA API Server by configuring the email adapter. The error and stack trace are stored in the log to help with debugging a problem. The email also notified very quickly an admin when a system problem is occurring.

Application logs#

The application logs provide a rich source of information on usage of VISA. The easiest way to access the logs is to go to the deployment directory where the docker-compose file is. Running the following command will show the logs for the whole VISA platform

docker-compose logs -f
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