patrick_brophy.yml

name: Patrick Brophy
title: Fellow
institution: Morgridge Institute for Research
status: Past
organizations:
  - chtc
image: images/patrick_brophy.jpg

fellowship:
  name: Expanded Pelican Origin Monitoring
  description: |
    The Pelican origin service is responsible for exporting objects in the backend
    storage to the data federation.  As it is the “entry point” for the data, understanding
    the load on the origin and its activities is key to keeping the federation healthy.  
    Pelican takes monitoring data from the web server component and feeds it into the popular
    Prometheus software to store time series about the activity.  This project would focus on:
    - Implementing new monitoring probes to complement the existing information.
    - Forwarding the raw, unsummarized data to an ElasticSearch database for further analysis.
    - Designing visualizations to provide administrators with an overview of the origin’s activities.
    - Implementing alerts when there are health issues with the origin.

    After a successful summer, the student fellow will gain skills in using the Go 
    language, the Prometheus monitoring system (and other Cloud Native technologies), and web design.
  mentor: Haoming Meng