Manage cluster of applications

Mission-critical applications achieve high availability and performance by distributing tasks over redundant processes run by various applications on multiple machines. For this, the Charta Platform provides options to delegate responsibility for these tasks to certain processes. These can be deployed multiple times to create a cluster of cooperating instances. To manage this cluster, the platform is now extended with the option to get insight into and manage the running applications and processes.

All web applications that upgrade to the latest version are automatically extended with this functionality. The Cluster menu in the website management portal shows two lists: Applications and Processes. The former lists all registered installations with a heartbeat, and the latter specifies all running processes per application. Here a service manager can review the setup, identify problems or bottlenecks, and design or monitor a maintenance or scale-up strategy.