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Re: Update on Monitoring in V3

From: Prashanth Abbagani <Prashanth.Abbagani_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:13:28 -0700

Vivek,

I will work with you on this.

-Prashanth

Jennifer Chou wrote:
> A new module like jruby which is not in the existing
> module-monitoring-levels (see asadmin get
> server.monitoring-service.*), is enabled for monitoring by default,
> and is always enabled. This is until the new config pluggability
> comes in and we can add new config elements.
>
> Did you try starting with the btrace agent (see below)? Did you see
> any exceptions?
> $>java
> -javaagent:/space/GFV3_BLD/glassfishv3/glassfish/lib/monitor/btrace-agent.jar=dumpClasses=true,unsafe=true
> -jar glassfishv3/glassfish/modules/glassfish.jar/
>
> I tried actually, but also couldn't see stats getting updated but it
> could just be my env, as I have bunch of changes locally. I see the
> following exception when I deploy a web app. Not sure if this why
> it's not working.
> INFO: Error while invoking client: false ==>
> java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
> Jul 16, 2009 5:14:20 PM
>
> Vivek Pandey wrote:
>> I can see all my jruby probes and stats provider but my listener
>> stats are not updated, they are all to their initial values. Are the
>> @ProbeListner invoked? Maybe I need to enable monitoring for JRuby
>> stats provider. How do I enable JRuby container monitoring?
>>
>> -vivek.
>>
>> Prashanth Abbagani wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The monitoring in V3 is now integrated and working with several
>>> stats from various module showing up. See the instructions towards
>>> the end to which explain on how to view these stats.
>>>
>>> Following are the features of monitoring that were accomplished
>>> before the soft-code freeze deadline.
>>>
>>> 1. Monitoring Probe Providers bundled by the module owners are
>>> discovered automatically and processed so probes are being fired
>>> when it visits module's code path
>>> 2. Following is done with the monitoring StatsProviders which
>>> listens to the probes and updates the statistics
>>> 1. We process the statsProviders (annotations) for the stats
>>> you have annotated to be exposed
>>> 2. Exposing the stats through CLI (asadmin)
>>> 3. Exposing the stats with REST
>>> 4. GUI team is working on exposing these stats for some of
>>> the critical modules
>>> 5. Integrate with Gmbal to expose these stats as JMX/AMX
>>> MBeans
>>> 6. We also are ensuring backward compatibility for all the V2
>>> level stats
>>> 7. Handling of config changes (from CLI,GUI or REST), so the
>>> stats get enabled/disabled automatically
>>> 3. We are using BTrace as our underlying infrastructure to do the
>>> byte-code instrumentation of the provider classes so the probes
>>> are fired and the registered listeners (StatsProviders) are
>>> called.
>>>
>>> _Steps to see the monitoring in action
>>> _
>>> You will need the BTrace agent running. You will need to start the
>>> server with the following agent option (See Issue 8706
>>> <https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8706>, you
>>> shouldn't need this step once its fixed.)
>>> /
>>> $>java
>>> -javaagent:/space/GFV3_BLD/glassfishv3/glassfish/lib/monitor/btrace-agent.jar=dumpClasses=true,unsafe=true
>>> -jar glassfishv3/glassfish/modules/glassfish.jar/
>>>
>>> To see the monitoring stats, you will have to turn on monitoring for
>>> the interested modules (see the attached script to turn them all to ON)
>>>
>>> There are various ways to see your stats,
>>>
>>> 1. REST - http://localhost:4848/monitoring/domain
>>> 2. asadmin - ./asadmin get --monitor=true "*"
>>> 3. JMX/AMX - Use JConsole to connect to 'localhost:8686'
>>>
>>>
>>> Let us know if you run into any issues or if you have any questions.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> Prashanth
>>>
>>>
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