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GeoServer Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Stefano Iacovella
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GeoServer Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Stefano Iacovella

Overview of this book

GeoServer is an opensource server written in Java that allows users to share, process, and edit geospatial data. This book will guide you through the new features and improvements of GeoServer and will help you get started with it. GeoServer Beginner's Guide gives you the impetus to build custom maps using your data without the need for costly commercial software licenses and restrictions. Even if you do not have prior GIS knowledge, you will be able to make interactive maps after reading this book. You will install GeoServer, access your data from a database, and apply style points, lines, polygons, and labels to impress site visitors with real-time maps. Then you follow a step-by-step guide that installs GeoServer in minutes. You will explore the web-based administrative interface to connect to backend data stores such as PostGIS, and Oracle. Going ahead, you can display your data on web-based interactive maps, use style lines, points, polygons, and embed images to visualize this data for your web visitors. You will walk away from this book with a working application ready for production. After reading GeoServer Beginner's Guide, you will be able to build beautiful custom maps on your website using your geospatial data.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Advanced configuration - Monitoring GeoServer


In order to enhance the performance of your GeoServer, you may consider monitoring usage. Monitoring lets you know what the most used services and datasets are.

A low-level approach, and the simplest possible is to analyze the GeoServer logs and the web server logs. All requests are, in some way, tracked there, so it is just a matter of how to find a convenient way to extract and organize them in a structured data model.

Analyzing the logs may be quite challenging. Besides, according to the detail level, you may find too much information or totally miss the piece you are looking for.

Luckily, GeoServer developers have been working on a clever extension that helps you to analyze what requests GeoServer has been receiving. Unsurprisingly, it is called the Monitor Extension.

Installing and configuring the monitoring extension

Installing the monitoring extension is easy. You need to download two different packages. In the following steps, we will get...