Monitoring and collecting performance metrics is an important part of application
development and maintenance. One would be interested in metrics such as memory
usage, response time of the various endpoints, CPU usage, load on the machine,
garbage-collection frequency, and pauses.
Here you will find several tutorials about monitoring WildFly Application Server using several tools such as Prometheus and its Alert Manager. How to display metrics with Grafana, How to capture insights with the ELK Stack and more.
This tutorial is an introduction to Hawkular monitoring solution. We will learn the core features of it and how to install its Agent on a WildFly 10 Server. First of all what is Hawkular? in a nutshell it is a an opensource monitoring solution sponsored by Red Hat. It is a successor of the RHQ … Read more
I have updated this tutorial to show how to use the hawtio console as opensource monitoring solution for any JVM middleware, like JBoss Enterprise applicaiton server / WildFly or any Java process which exposes metrics via JMX Most of you would argue why we need to learn another management console, when we are just fine … Read more
There are actually many free and opensource tools for monitoring the jboss/wildfly application server. In this article we will learn how to create a monitoring shell using as little as jboss cli and bash and awk. In some scenarios you have to monitor one or two key attributes of the application server configuration and receive … Read more
In this tutorial we will learn how to setup, configure and monitor a WildFly application server node using the AppDynamics Performance Management (APM) solution. In order to get started with AppDynamics we will start a 15 days free trial subscription at https://portal.appdynamics.com/account/signup/signupForm/ Once expired the pro trail of AppDynamics you can still use the Lite version of it … Read more
This quick tutorial shows how to monitor a remote WildFly application server in Standalone and Domain mode using the JConsole tool. Connecting to a remote WildFly Server in Standalone Mode The first thing you need to do is setting up a management user on the remote WildFly server using the add-user.sh/add-user.cmd script: What type of user … Read more
Jolokia is a cool monitoring solution for accessing JMX MBeans remotely. It is different to JSR-160 connectors in so far as it is an agent based approach which uses JSON over HTTP for its communication in a REST-stylish way. As any monitoring solution, an agent is required to interact with the application. Multiple agents are … Read more
Please note: this tutorial has been written for JBoss AS 5 and it’s therefore obsolete. If you want to configure alarms and metrics for WildFly application server we recommend checking this tutorial: Monitoring WildFly with Prometheus An Alarm indicates that an event (generally an error) has happened in the system. In this article we’re going … Read more
