GlassFish Monitoring Tool

Sun GlassFish is one of the leading open source J2EE application servers. ManageEngine Applications Manager helps in monitoring the performance and availability of GlassFish Application Server.

ManageEngine Applications Manager diagnoses, notifies, and corrects performance and availability problems with App Servers, Databases, Servers, WebServices, etc.

Applications Manager has the capability to build dashboards for JMX MBeans. This along with Java Runtime Monitoring and URL Sequence Monitoring is used to monitor Glassfish App Server.

Java Runtime Monitoring

Java Runtime Monitor provides out-of-the-box remote monitoring and management on Java platform and of applications that run on it. Some metrics that can be monitored - Process Memory stats, Virtual Memory stats, Thread stats etc.

URL Sequence Monitoring

Record & Playback HTTP Requests: It checks pages with dynamically generated information, enhancing interactive transactions such as logging into a login page, creating an account using a web form, instructing the application to perform some action, etc.

J2EE Web Transactions Monitoring

J2EE Web Transactions Monitor helps to better visualize J2EE Web Transactions end to end, with performance metrics of all components starting from URLs to SQL queries.

A detailed step by step procedure on how to monitor GlassFish is provided in Forums.

GlassFish Monitoring Capabilities

• Monitors performance statistics such as memory usage, thread pool, web applications. alarms can be configured for these parameters.
• Based on the thresholds configured, notifications and alarms are generated. Actions are executed automatically based on configurations.
• Performance graphs and reports are available instantly. Grouping of reports, customized reports and graphs based on date is available.