jmxproxybeat

README

Jmxproxybeat

Welcome to Jmxproxybeat - simple beat for JMXProxyServlet for Apache Tomcat to retrieve JMX metrics.

This is still development version and I expect changes based on feedback.

This beat retrieves JMX metrics from running JVM of Apache Tomcat and sends them to Logstash or Elasticsearch. JMX metrics are requested via 'JMX Proxy Servlet' configured and enabled in Tomcat for HTTP listener. JMX Proxy Servlet is a lightweight proxy to get and set the Tomcat internals.

Because Jmxproxybeat is not using JAVA, it is lightweight on the system and there is no need for JAVA to get JMX metrics.

Tomcat Versions

Supported Tomcat versions:

Tomcat version
Tomcat 7
Tomcat 8

Tomcat configuration

General reading about Tomcat JMX Proxy servlet.

In order to enable JMX Proxy Servlet in default Tomcat package, minimal configuration in conf/tomcat-users.xml is required. Tomcat restart is also required.

<role rolename="manager-jmx"/>
<user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="manager-jmx"/>

Test if your Tomcat configuration works with your credentials.

Template scheme of the request of the Bean:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/manager/jmxproxy/?get=BEANNAME&att=MYATTRIBUTE&key=MYKEY

Example of request for HeapMemoryUsage

http://127.0.0.1:8080/manager/jmxproxy/?get=java.lang:type=Memory&att=HeapMemoryUsage&key=init

Getting Started with Jmxproxybeat

Ensure that this folder is at the following location: ${GOPATH}/github.com/radoondas

Requirements

• Golang 1.7
• Glide >= 0.10.0

Build

To build the binary for Jmxproxybeat run the command below. This will generate a binary in the same directory with the name jmxproxybeat.

make

Run

To run Jmxproxybeat with debugging output enabled, run:

./jmxproxybeat -c jmxproxybeat.yml -e -d "*"

Example JSON output

{
  "_index": "jmxproxybeat-2016.04.20",
  "_type": "jmx",
  "_id": "AVQ0FOGeegQ15caFDGZ7",
  "_score": null,
  "_source": {
    "@timestamp": "2016-04-20T14:31:03.385Z",
    "bean": {
      "attribute": "MemoryUsed",
      "hostname": "127.0.0.1:8080",
      "name": "java.nio:type=BufferPool,name=direct",
      "value": 81920
    },
    "beat": {
      "hostname": "localhost",
      "name": "localhost"
    },
    "type": "jmx"
  }

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Test - not complete yet

To test Jmxproxybeat, run the following command:

make testsuite

alternatively:

make unit-tests
make system-tests
make integration-tests
make coverage-report

The test coverage is reported in the folder ./build/coverage/

Package - not complete yet

To be able to package Jmxproxybeat the requirements are as follows:

• Docker Environment >= 1.10
• $GOPATH/bin must be part of $PATH: export PATH=${PATH}:${GOPATH}/bin

To cross-compile and package Jmxproxybeat for all supported platforms, run the following commands:

cd dev-tools/packer
make deps
make images
make

Update

Each beat has a template for the mapping in elasticsearch and a documentation for the fields which is automatically generated based on etc/fields.yml. To generate etc/jmxproxybeat.template.json and etc/jmxproxybeat.asciidoc

make update

Cleanup

To clean Jmxproxybeat source code, run the following commands:

make fmt
make simplify

To clean up the build directory and generated artifacts, run:

make clean

Clone

To clone Jmxproxybeat from the git repository, run the following commands:

mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/github.com/radoondas
cd ${GOPATH}/github.com/radoondas
git clone https://github.com/radoondas/jmxproxybeat