[Baylisa] tomcat and other monitoring?

Tue Aug 14 13:54:57 PDT 2012

ohhai, Ray!

Fancing meeting you here. :P

Graphite/Ganglia are popular these days for monitoring/graphing:
http://graphite.wikidot.com/
http://neopatel.blogspot.com/2011/04/logging-to-graphite-monitoring-tool.html

http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
http://blog.sflow.com/2011/12/using-ganglia-to-monitor-java-virtual.html

JMX glue for jvm (Tomcat too) -> Ganglia/Graphite:
https://github.com/lookfirst/jmxtrans/wiki

HTH

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:13:37PM -0700, Ray Wong wrote:
>Hey all, not like there's a lot of list traffic/discussions these
>days, but iirc that's actually one of the accepted uses for the list,
>so I thought I'd try it out again...
>
>Just wondering if other folks are still having to brew up
>monitoring/graphing solutions. detecting outages and failures seems a
>given, but there doesn't seem to be much going on WRT graphing trends
>and such... In the case of monitoring tomcat, I found a lone thread on
>the cacti forums, which generate some vaguely useful graphs, but the
>solution is all wrapped up in a rather obfuscating XML-template system
>that doesn't seem to lend itself well to certain customizations such
>as running multiple instances, etc. Anyone found a better solution, or
>figure out enough jmxproxy to come up with more modular, basic scripts
>to create something a little more flexible and extensible? There seem
>to be newer graphing options (graphite, carbon, etc), but doesn't seem
>to be much in the way of actually talking to data sources still.
>
>Anyone? Seems like we all used to deal with a lot of this as
>sysadmins, and maybe my googlefu is not strong, but seems like most of
>the efforts are all years out of date now.

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