web based jmx monitoring - jmx

We have around 25 JVM which we are monitoring using JConsole
We are primarily interested only to view the Heap Memory and CPU usage of these 25 JVM process
Is there a simple web tool which can be pull these metrics from different jconsole and display in a dashboard?
Manually logging into each jconsole and monitoring at the time of production incidents is a time taking procedure
Pls help if any such tool is available

Are you looking for any licensed tool? There are many tools available in the market with various range. https://blog.overops.com/java-performance-monitoring-5-open-source-tools-you-should-know/
When you are interested only in CPU & Heap , you can try https://www.eginnovations.com/product/java-performance-monitoring

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JMXmonitor web application

I need to monitor memory consumption, class loading, thread details specific to each web application deployed in a tomcat server. In my use case, there will be a number of WAR files deployed in a single tomcat instance.
I know i can enable JMX to monitor tomcat and can get few details about the applications deployed in it. But this will not give any information about memory consumption and other details specific to a each web application.
We can enable JMX for a jar file with the below configurations.
java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=3333 \
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false \
YourJavaApp
Similar to this, is there any way to enable JMX for a web application. Again, what I'm looking is to get details like memory consumption, class-loading, thread details separately for each web application.
Thanks,
nks
JMX only provides high level metrics, you may want to use an APM tool to get deeper into your code and provide far better visibility. The three leading products for this are AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and New Relic. I work for AppDynamics if you have questions, I believe we have the best solution on the market today. We also monitor JMX and do much deeper code analysis, and transaction stitching.

Capture / Monitor system data of application server in Graphite

I am using graphite server to capture my metrics data and bring down to graphs. I have 4 application servers which is load balancer setup. My aim is capture system data such as cpu usage, memory usage, disk load, etc., for all the 4 application servers. I setup an graphite environment in a separate server and i wanted to push the system data for all the applications servers to graphite and get it display as graphs. I don't know what needs to be done for feeding system data to graphite. My thinking was to install statsd in all application servers and feed the system data to graphite but looks like statsd does not support system data rather application data.
Can anyone help me to catch the right track. Thanks in advance.
Running collectd with a graphite agent would be an excellent start to gather the information your after.
There is an almost unlimited amount of ways to get your data into graphite.
You can find a list of tools that have known to work very well with graphite on the readthedocs.org page: http://graphite.readthedocs.org/en/0.9.10/tools.html
There is also an example script that gathers load average from the system in the carbon project: example-client.py

Interesting metrics from JMX

May I know what are the typical metrics that application developers usually find interesting with the use of JMX other than:
CPU Utilization
Memory consumption
Nicholas
I would add:
Class loaders behaviour
Threads
memory usage diagram (you can see gc runs and detect memory leaks)
stack trace of specified thread
jvm uptime, OS information
all jmx exposed data with your application
Garbage Collector Activity (duration and frequency)
Deadlock Detection
Connector Traffic (in / out)
Request processing time
Number of sessions (in relation to max configured)
Average Session duration
Number of sessions rejected
Is Webmodule running ?
Uptime (if less than 5 minutes, then someone restarted the JVM)
Connector threads relative to the max. available connector threads
Datasource Pools: Usage (relative), Lease time
JMS: Queue size, DLQ size
See also Jmx4Perl's predefined Nagios Check for further metrics ....
JMX can be used to support any of the MXbeans metrics.
Refer Java Documentation - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/management/ManagementFactory.html
section Method Summary.

Java app performance counters viewed in Perfmon

I have a Java app running on Tomcat, and I would like to monitor counters using Windows Performance Monitor. Is this possible using a JMX adapter for the Java MBeans or by some other means?
The following tutorial might be of use:
http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/3087741/Hooking-to-PerfMon-from-Java.htm
It shows how a Java application defines a custom counter that can be monitored in Perfmon. It basically boils down to using an extension DLL to the performance monitor and communicating with that via a memory mapped file. You could then hook your JMX counters into a similar mechanism so that they can be monitored from Perfmon.
Since you tagged this with JMX and MBeans, I assume your counters are accessible from a Java MBean. If so you could use jconsole, provided with the Java SDK, to monitor the counters. Once you find your MBean in the MBeans tab, double click on the value and it will draw a nice line graph for easy monitoring.
See JConsole Guide for more info.
This seems to be exactly what you're looking for, but it's not free:
http://www.adventnet.com/products/snmpadaptor/faqs/general.html
If you want to do this programatically, you can create a JMXConnection to the machine, then accessing the MBeans from there. We did this ourselves for a function test that involved keeping track of the number of threads in the application, which there's a counter for that you can access through JMX. If you want nice graphs and things like that I suggest using JConsole, as mentioned above. There's also a program called JProfiler that works like JConsole on steroids, basically. There's a free trial so you can try it out.
This article outlines how to access Windows PerfMon stats from Java and expose them as MBean attributes through JMX.

Monitoring CPU Core Usage on Terminal Servers

I have windows 2003 terminal servers, multi-core. I'm looking for a way to monitor individual CPU core usage on these servers. It is possible for an end-user to have a run-away process (e.g. Internet Explorer or Outlook). The core for that process may spike to near 100% leaving the other cores 'normal'. Thus, the overall CPU usage on the server is just the total of all the cores or if 7 of the cores on a 8 core server are idle and the 8th is running at 100% then 1/8 = 12.5% usage.
What utility can I use to monitor multiple servers ? If the CPU usage for a core is "high" what would I use to determine the offending process and then how could I automatically kill that process if it was on the 'approved kill process' list?
A product from http://www.packettrap.com/ called PT360 would be perfect except they use SMNP to get data and SMNP appears to only give total CPU usage, it's not broken out by an individual core. Take a look at their Dashboard option with the CPU gauge 'gadget'. That's exactly what I need if only it worked at the core level.
Any ideas?
Individual CPU usage is available through the standard windows performance counters. You can monitor this in perfmon.
However, it won't give you the result you are looking for. Unless a thread/process has been explicitly bound to a single CPU then a run-away process will not spike one core to 100% while all the others idle. The run-away process will bounce around between all the processors. I don't know why windows schedules threads this way, presumably because there is no gain from forcing affinity and some loss due to having to handle interrupts on particular cores.
You can see this easily enough just in task manager. Watch the individual CPU graphs when you have a single compute bound process running.
You can give Spotlight on Windows a try. You can graphically drill into all sorts of performance and load indicators. Its freeware.
perfmon from Microsoft can monitor each individual CPU. perfmon also works remote and you can monitor farious aspects of Windows.
I'm not sure if it helps to find run-away processes because the Windows scheduler dos not execute a process always on the same CPU -> on your 8 CPU machine you will see 12.5 % usage on all CPU's if one process runs away.

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