JBoss/Tomcat : Realtime dashboard : monitor status of deployed services / applications

[splunkmasterfle]

I want to implement a real-time dashboard to monitor the current state of services/applications deployed in a JBoss or Tomcat web-container. I would need to identify states (UP,DOWN,STARTING) and update the UI depending on each state.

There doesn't seem to be any JBoss or Tomcat specific Apps dedicated to real-time monitoring. Has anyone worked on a similar project? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Ideally, it would look something like this:

(where each rectangle represents a service and the color is the state)

[Damien_Dallimor]

JBoss/Tomcat already expose the required MBeans by default , which you can then use Splunk4JMX to monitor these MBeans.

[Damien_Dallimor]

You could use Splunk for JMX to pull the necessary data into Splunk via the exposed MBeans that can provide information pertaining to app/service state in Tomcat and JBoss.

Then write a real time search for this data and add it to a Simple XML UI component in a dashboard.

To exactly replicate that UI example above , you'd need to create a custom Advanced XML module.
So perhaps you can still convey a similar UI experience using whats already available in Simple XML.

[splunkmasterfle]

From what I understand, your app uses beans that would have to be created for each of the services that I want to monitor in order to determine their respective statuses. (correct me if I am wrong)