First post: using jconsole

[kjkoster]

Dear All,

This is the very first post on java-monitor.com ever. What better way to kick off this forum than by posting a collection of links.


Connecting to a JVM using jconsole (http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/jconsole.html).
Connecting to a Tomcat server using jconsole (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/monitoring.html).
Connecting to a JBoss server using jconsole (http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/UseJDK5JConsole).
Connecting to an Orion server using jconsole (http://www.orionsupport.com/150.html).
Connecting to an OC4J server using jconsole (http://buttso.blogspot.com/2006/05/establishing-remote-connections-to.html).


It's only fitting, since hooking up jconsole is going to be the first thing I'll ask you to do if you run into problems with your application servers. :-)

So, what links do you have in your favourites? What pages do you refer to when a server is dying on you and you don't know what is happening?

Kees Jan

[sippykup]

Monitoring and Management using JMX (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/management/agent.html)
jManage (http://jmanage.org)
and of course
Zapcat (http://www.kjkoster.org/zapcat/Zapcat_JMX_Zabbix_Bridge.html) :)

[Barry]

I'm a very big fan of VisualVM (https://visualvm.dev.java.net/) which is going to replace JConsole eventually.
Added benefits are plugins and a way to profile running applications (locally, but I'm sure remote profiling will be possible too)

[mbsobat]

Great links... thanks

[Barry]

I'll try to write something short on VisualVM this weekend to introduce you guys

[Michael]

Out of all things I have experimented I like Hyperic (http://hyperic.com) the most. Its super easy to setup and works really well with monitoring tomcat (http://www.hyperic.com/products/managed/tomcat-management.htm), jboss (http://www.hyperic.com/products/managed/jboss-management.htm)and tons of other apps like databases (http://www.hyperic.com/products/managed/mysql-management.htm), middleware (http://www.hyperic.com/products/managed/activemq-management.htm)solutions which you may be running along with your plain old app/web stack.

[kjkoster]

Dear All,

Here is another step-by-step discussion on how to use jconsole (http://www.cecmg.de/doc/tagung_2007/agenda07/24-mai/2b4-peter-johnson/index.html) and other JMX consoles, by Peter Johnson.

Kees Jan