Top 10 GlassFish v2 Monitoring Resources

GlassFish v2 has a great monitoring capabilities. I read few nice blogs and articles on GFv2 monitoring after it was released. Here are top 10 GFv2 monitoring resources that I recommend reading…

10. Official Docs on Monitoring: Official documentation describing GFv2 monitoring statistics tree, how to enable/disable monitoring, how to view the stats and how to use JConsole.

9. Application Manager support for GlassFish: Blog on how to use Application Manager from AdventNet with GlassFish.

8. Hyperic Page for GlassFish: Glassfish monitoring plugin for Hyperic HQ.

7. Monitoring Blogs on Aquarium: Monitoring blogs @ The Aquarium.

6. Dynamic Load Balancing: Great article on how to use self management framework to monitor and dynamically load balance a cluster.

5. Monitoring and Managing Web Services: Comprehensive article on GFv2 web services monitoring and management capabilities.

4. VisualVM: Blog on how to use VisualVM with GlassFish.

3. Monitoring Connection Pools: Blog on how to use P6Spy to trace database operations.

2. Monitoring Overview of GFv2: Nice blog on GFv2 monitoring. A must read.

1. Call Flow: Observe time spent in various containers by your application using Call Flow. Great tech tip!