Lucid Imagination releases free monitoring tool for Lucene

Lucid Imagination, the commercial company that supports open-source search tools Apache Lucene and Apache Solr, released a free monitoring tool this week called LucidGaze, which enables designers to harvest information from Lucene and Solr more easily. The tool fills a big hole in the product set, which previously required a lot of programming and customization to get at the same data.

Lucid Imagination says that "LucidGaze lets application developers harvest data such as the rate of queries, query speed, text analysis times, memory consumption, changes to index structure and other Lucene-specific information; analyze the performance and efficiency of their implementations, and optimize their search applications."

Eric Gries, CEO of Lucid Imagination says this tool fills a need in the Lucene community. "In response to the requests and feedback from the Lucene user community, we are pleased to offer the LucidGaze for Lucene performance monitoring tool. We believe it will make it a bit easier for developers to get the most out of their Lucene-based applications."

It comes with a number of standard monitors, which give users access to these key statistics such as the search monitor, which gives data on search cycle times. You can grab LucidGaze for free from the Lucid Imagination downloads page. This is the best of open-source computing, where a company that has commercialized around supporting an open-source product and creates a tool for the community to make the product easier to use and fill a gap in functionality.

For more information:
- see the Lucid Imagination press release

Related Articles:
Lucid Imagination scores In-Q-Tel funding
Lucene appears to pick up steam
Lucid Imagination launches this week