How to monitor Apache ActiveMQ

[CommunityUser]

Has anyone used AppDynamics to monitor Apache ActiveMQ? I'd be interested to find out your tips and experiences.

[CommunityUser]

Currently I am trying but it not passing any data to controller. I dont know if it is a problem witch JMX connection or any other problem. Is there any way to disable SSL communication to JMX? (explicit in configuration)?

[Arun_Dasetty]

Hi,

Yes, you can monitor ActiveMQ using AD agent as follows:

shell> cd <ActiveMQ_install_dir>/bin

shell> java -javaagent:"/path/to/agent/dir/javaagent.jar" -jar run.jar start
Ex:

shell> java -javaagent:"/mnt/AppServerAgent/javaagent.jar" -jar run.jar start

The above command will start actievemq server with AD appserver agent., You can create a tier of type MQ from AppServers -> create tier and associate the agent installed as node under this tier, and you can monitor the JVM heap stats and JMX mbean stats. etc

Let us know if that helps

Thanks,

Arun

[CommunityUser]

Thanks Arun,

This gets some of the information I'd like to see. Has anyone configured business transaction detection for ActiveMQ? I'd like to see business transactions for messages being written to and read from ActiveMQ.

[Arun_Dasetty]

Hi,

Currently we do not see monitor activemq using busisness transaction and we do not have such docs, However you can go ahead and configure POJO custom rules on api you are interested in activemq or on message listener api part of activemq to monitor in detail.

Thanks,

Arun