How to monitor a spring-boot application via JMX?

java spring jmx spring-boot visualvm
membersound picture membersound · Sep 10, 2014 · Viewed 11k times · Source

I'm trying to set up a JMX monitoring for a comand line app build with spring-boot.

According to https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/master/spring-boot-actuator I just have to add the dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
</dependency>

Now I start my app, open VisualVM and I already see my application PID. But how can I now access the metrics like /health etc that are mentioned on the actuator page? As this is a comand line app, I don't have any HTTP path that I can execute.

How can I see those metrics via JXM?

Answer

dunni picture dunni · Sep 10, 2014

If you want to access JMX beans with JVisualVM, you need to install the VisualVM-MBeans plugin (go to Tools -> Plugins -> Available Plugins). You can also use JConsole, which can access JMX beans by default.

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