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Can we find hung threads using the Monitoring of Java Virtual Machines with JMX app on a JBoss server?

chillao123
Explorer

I would like to check if JMX can help find hung threads so that I can set up alerts for potential downtime. I'm using a JBoss server.

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Damien_Dallimor
Ultra Champion

The java.lang mbean domain has numerous Threading attributes and operations that you can poll into Splunk to perform Thread analysis.
And the JMX App can be setup to access this data in its configuration file (comprehensive examples ship with the install).

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sandipan1982
Explorer

It is working now. There was no hung thread in my environment so no data was coming. But I found data is coming when Hung Thread created.

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sandipan1982
Explorer

Hi Damien

I have enable operation in configuration file like below:

    <operation name="findMonitorDeadlockedThreads" outputname="findMonitorDeadlockedThreads"/>
    <operation name="findDeadlockedThreads" outputname="findDeadlockedThreads"/>

But I am not getting any data in Splunk.

Search:

index=* sourcetype="*jmx*" host=xxxxx mbean_domain="java.lang" mbean_property_type=Threading

Result:

host=xx.xx.xx.xx ,jvmDescription="jbossCloudJMX",mbean_domain=java.lang,mbean_property_type=Threading,findDeadlockedThreads=,findMonitorDeadlockedThreads=

Could you please help us if we are doing anything wrong?

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Damien_Dallimor
Ultra Champion

What happens if you invoke those operations in JConsole ? Any output ?

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sandipan1982
Explorer

Thanks Damien.

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