Hi all,
those of you who have heard Jaime advocate for improved monitoring capabilities
of Matterhorn have probably been convinced that this is an area where immediate
action is due. And those running Matterhorn in production will probably agree
that even though monitoring can be done using the REST endpoingt, having better
means of accessing Matterhorn metrics might be a good thing.
Christoph and I have been looking into the technologies used throughout the
field and have come to the conclusion that there are a couple of possible
approaches, but the one that really stands out is using the Java Management
Extension (JMX) [1]. So what is JMX? This was found on the Oracle blog [3]:
"To make it short, JMX is a technology that lets you implement
management interfaces for Java applications.
A management interface, as defined by JMX, is composed of named objects
- called MBeans (Management Beans). MBeans are registered with a name (an
ObjectName) in an MBeanServer. To manage (a) resource(s) in your application,
you will write an MBean that defines its management interface, and then
register that MBean in your MBeanServer. The content of the MBeanServer can
then be exposed through various protocols, implemented by protocol connectors,
or protocol adaptors.
A protocol connector (e.g. the JMX RMI Connector) exposes the MBeans as
they are - so a remote client sees the same model than a local client. A
protocol adaptor (e.g. an SNMP adaptor, or HTML adaptor) performs (or provides
hooks to let you perform) a model mediation - to adapt the model to what a
client of that protocol (e.g. SNMP Manager, or Web Browser) would expect to
see."
People tcan then start building their monitoring needs ontop of the JMX
architecture, which allows for quite a bit of flexibility with the number of
open and commercial tools out there that support the JMX standard.
So our #proposal is to start adding JMX support to Matterhorn and I would like
to get feedback and/or +/- ones on this suggested approach.
Tobias
[1]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/javamanagement-140525.html
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/tools/svc/jconsole/
[3] https://blogs.oracle.com/jmxetc/entry/what_is_jmx
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