Wiki source code of Monitoring
Version 1.1 by Vincent Massol on 2010/06/23
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| 1 | There are 2 solutions you can use to monitor a running XWiki instance: | ||
| 2 | * [[Use a Profiler>>http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Profiling]]. This has the advantage of providing advanced information but has the drawback of being resource intensive and thus slowing the XWiki instance. It also requires a special startupscript | ||
| 3 | * Starting with XWiki Enterprise 2.4M2 we've now started using the [[JMX Technology>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Management_Extensions]] to provide runtime monitoring of XWiki instances. The following features are currently available: | ||
| 4 | ** Monitor the Velocity macro caches | ||
| 5 | ** Monitor the caches XWiki is using to cache Document data, Users & Groups data and more | ||
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| 7 | = JMX Console = | ||
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| 9 | Since JMX is a standard you can use [[any JMX-compatible monitoring console>>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1744900/what-is-the-best-or-most-commonly-used-jmx-console-client]] (most application servers provide a web-based JMX console). There's also such a console bundled by default in the Java Runtime you're using. To start it, simply execute the ##jconsole## executable. | ||
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| 11 | Example of JConsole showing the Velocity Cache monitoring: | ||
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| 13 | image:jconsole1.png | ||
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| 15 | image:jconsole2.png |
