[AIAB-02] Create the system and its components

Akamas provides an out-of-the-box optimization pack called Web Application that comes very handy for modeling typical web applications, as it includes metrics such as transactions_throughput and transaction_response_time which you will use in this guide to define the optimization goal and analyze the optimization results. These metrics will be gathered from JMeter, thanks to Akamas out-of-the-box Prometheus telemetry provider.

Let's create the system and its components.

The file system.yaml contains the following definition for our system:

name: konakart
description: The konakart eCommerce shop

Run the command to create it:

akamas create system system.yaml

Now, install the Web Application optimization pack from the UI:

Akamas provides an out-of-the-box optimization pack called Web Application that comes very handy for modeling typical web applications, as it includes metrics such as transactions_throughput and transaction_response_time which you will use in this guide to define the optimization goal and analyze the optimization results. These metrics will be gathered from JMeter, thanks to Akamas out-of-the-box Prometheus telemetry provider.

You can now create the component modeling of the Konakart web application.

The file comp_konakart.yaml defines the component as follows:

name: konakart
description: The konakart web application
componentType: Web Application
properties:
  prometheus:
    instance: jmeter
    job: jmeter

As you can see, this component contains some custom properties, instance and job, under the prometheus group. These properties are used by the Prometheus telemetry provider as values for the corresponding instance and job labels in the Prometheus queries to collect metrics for the correct entities. You will configure the Prometheus integration in the next sections.

You can now run the command to create the component:

akamas create component comp_konakart.yaml konakart

You can now explore the result of your system modeling in the UI. As you can see, your konakart component is now populated with all the typical metrics of a web application: