This is my talk on jmxtrans for the http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bay-Area-Large-Scale-Production-Engineering/events/15481175/

1. JMXTRANS
http://jmxtrans.googlecode.com/
Jon Stevens
latchkey@gmail.com

2. WHO IS THIS JON GUY?
• Platform Architect @ MarinSoftware.com
• 15+ years coding
• Apache Member & Co-Founded Jakarta Apache
• Created / contributed - many open source projects
• Cyclist, Motorcyclist, Rock Climber, Chickens

3. WHAT IS JMX?
• Java Management Extensions
• Enables
remote communication directly with a Java Virtual
Machine
• Many services have made statistics available
• Easy to work with
• Generally doesn’t affect JVM performance

4. jconsole

5. WHY?
• Required start / stop of JVM
• Difficult to configure (write perl to talk to java?)
• Commercial products
• All encompassing solutions

6. JMX TRANSFORMER ENGINE
Integration with Graphite, Ganglia, RRD, Files, You Name It

7. • Java process running on a server
• Talk to 1000’s of servers
• Output data to multiple systems

8. • Built
for performance and scalability
(multithreaded)
• Poolssocket connections on both the JMX input
side and the output side
• Runs as a Java application server
• Easy to install - debian, rpm (soon), .zip
• Easy to configure (json formatted files)
• Source code is documented, easy to read

15. FUTURE?
• GUI editor for JSON files
• More OutputWriters (OpenTSDB, Zabbix, Zenoss)
• jmxtrans monitoring itself
• Ideas?

16. MARIN SOFTWARE