Agile Metrics in Action

Appendix B. Collecting data from source systems with Grails

This appendix covers

• The architecture of the Grails component in measurementor
• Structure of the domain objects
• Using Quartz as a job scheduler

This appendix goes into the architecture and code of the Grails data collector in the measurementor project. This will be a good chapter to read if you want to fork, contribute to, extend, or customize the project to better fit into your environment.

This appendix picks up where appendix A left off. In appendix A we talked about using Elasticsearch (EC) to index your data and Kibana to generate graphs and do ad hoc analysis of your data. Combined, these platforms are very powerful and provide a lot of out-of-the-box functionality. But ...