JMX

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JMX

Apache ActiveMQ Classic has extensive support for JMX to allow you to monitor and control the behavior of the broker via the JMX MBeans.

Using JMX to monitor Apache ActiveMQ Classic

You can enable/disable JMX support as follows…

  1. Run a broker setting the broker property useJmx to true (enabled by default) i.e.

    For xbean configuration

     <broker useJmx="true" brokerName="BROKER1">
     ...
     </broker>
    
  2. Run a JMX console
    $ jconsole 
    
  3. The ActiveMQ Classic broker should appear in the list of local connections, if you are running JConsole on the same host as ActiveMQ Classic.

JMX remote access

Remote connections to JMX are not enabled by default in the activemq.xml for security reasons. Please refer to Java Management guide to configure the broker for remote management.

Using the Apache ActiveMQ Classic version on OS X it appears as follows:


 

ActiveMQ Classic MBeans Reference

For additional references provided below is a brief hierarchy of the mbeans and a listing of the properties, attributes, and operations of each mbeans.

Mbean Type Properties / ObjectName  Attributes Operations
Broker type=Broker, brokerName=<broker-identifier> BrokerId, TotalEnqueueCount, TotalDequeueCount, TotalConsumerCount, TotalMessageCount, TotalConnectionsCount, TotalConsumerCount, TotalProducerCount, MemoryLimit, MemoryPercentUsage, StoreLimit, StorePercentUsage start, stop, terminateJVM, resetStatistics, gc
Destination type=Broker, brokerName=<name-of-broker>, destinationType=Queue|Topic, destinationName=<name> Average, EnqueueTime, ConsumerCount, DequeueCount, EnqueueCount, ExpiredCount, InFlightCount, MemoryLimit, MemoryPercentUsage, Name, QueueSize (queues only) browseMessages, gc, purge, resetStatistics
NetworkConnector type=Broker, brokerName==<name-of-broker>, connector=networkConnectors, networkConnectorName==<connector-identifier> Name, Duplex, DynamicOnly, BridgeTempDestinations, ConduitSubscriptions, DecreaseNetworkConsumerPriority, DispatchAsync, DynamicOnly, NetworkTTL, Password, PrefetchSize start, stop
Connector type=Broker, brokerName=<name-of-broker>, connector=clientConnectors, ConnectorName==<connector-identifier> StatisticsEnabled start, stop, resetStatistics, enableStatistics, disableStatistics, connectionCount
Connection type=Broker, brokerName=<name-of-broker>, connectionViewType=clientId, connectionName==<connection-identifier> DispatchQueueSize, Active, Blocked, Connected, Slow, Consumers, Producers, RemoteAddress, UserName, ClientId start, stop, resetStatistics
PersistenceAdapter type=Broker, brokerName=<name-of-broker>, Service=PersistenceAdapter, InstanceName==<adapter-identifier> Name, Size, Data, Transactions  
Health type=Broker, brokerName=<name-of-broker>, Service=Health CurrentStatus health

Command line utilities are also available to let you monitor ActiveMQ Classic. Refer to ActiveMQ Classic Command Line Tools Reference for usage information.

JMX API is also exposed via REST management API

Password Protecting the JMX Connector

(For Java 1.5+)

  1. Make sure JMX is enabled, but tell ActiveMQ Classic not create its own connector so that it will use the default JVM JMX connector.
     <broker xmlns="http://activemq.org/config/1.0" brokerName="localhost"useJmx="true">
        
       ...
        
       <managementContext>
          <managementContext createConnector="false"/>
       </managementContext>
        
       ...
        
     </broker>
    
  2. Create access and password files

    conf/jmx.access:

     # The "monitorRole" role has readonly access.
     # The "controlRole" role has readwrite access.
     monitorRole readonly
     controlRole readwrite
    

    conf/jmx.password:

     # The "monitorRole" role has password "abc123".
     # The "controlRole" role has password "abcd1234".
     monitorRole abc123
     controlRole abcd1234
    

    (Make sure both files are not world readable - more info can be find here to protect files)

    For more details you can see the Monitoring Tomcat Document

  3. Modify the “activemq” startup script (in bin) to enable the Java 1.5+ JMX connector

    Find the “ACTIVEMQ_SUNJMX_START=” line and change it to the following: (note that in previous versions of ActiveMQ Classic this property was called SUNJMX in some scripts.  As of v5.12.0 all scripts use ACTIVEMQ_SUNJMX_START):

    1. Windows
         ACTIVEMQ_SUNJMX_START=-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1616 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
       -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.password.file=%ACTIVEMQ_BASE%/conf/jmx.password \
       -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.access.file=%ACTIVEMQ_BASE%/conf/jmx.access
      
    2. Unix
         ACTIVEMQ_SUNJMX_START="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1616 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
       -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.password.file=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/conf/jmx.password \
       -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.access.file=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/conf/jmx.access"
      

    This could be set in /etc/activemq.conf instead (if you have root access):

    1. Windows
         ACTIVEMQ_HOME=DRIVE_LETTER:/where/ActiveMQ/is/installed
         ACTIVEMQ_BASE=%ACTIVEMQ_HOME%
         ACTIVEMQ_SUNJMX_START=-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1616 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
         -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.password.file=%ACTIVEMQ_BASE%/conf/jmx.password \
         -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.access.file=%ACTIVEMQ_BASE%/conf/jmx.access
      
    2. Unix
         ACTIVEMQ_HOME=DRIVE_LETTER:/where/ActiveMQ/is/installed
         ACTIVEMQ_BASE=${ACTIVEMQ_HOME}
         ACTIVEMQ_SUNJMX_START="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1616 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
         -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.password.file=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/conf/jmx.password \
         -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.access.file=${ACTIVEMQ_BASE}/conf/jmx.access"
      
  4. Start ActiveMQ Classic

You should be able to connect to JMX on the JMX URL

service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://<your hostname>:1616/jmxrmi

And you will be forced to login.

Selective MBean registration

In situations where you need to scale your broker to large number of connections, destinations and consumers it can become very expensive to keep JMX MBeans for all those objects. Instead of turning off JMX completely, starting with 5.12.0, you can selectively suppress registration of some types of MBeans and thus help your broker scale, while still having a basic view of the broker state.

For example, the following configuration will exclude all dynamic producers, consumers, connections and advisory topics from registering their MBeans

<managementContext>
  <managementContext suppressMBean="endpoint=dynamicProducer,endpoint=Consumer,connectionName=*,destinationName=ActiveMQ.Advisory.*"/>
</managementContext>

ManagementContext Properties Reference

Property Name Default Value Description
useMBeanServer true If true then it avoids creating a new MBean server if a MBeanServer has already been created in the JVM
jmxDomainName org.apache.activemq The jmx domain that all objects names will use
createMBeanServer true If we should create the MBeanServer is none is found.
createConnector false Please refer to Java Management guide to configure the server for remote management and lock down the endpoint serialisation with an appropriate jdk.serialFilter

Note: if set to true:
* lock down the endpoint serialisation with an appropriate jdk.serialFilter
* configure rmiServerPort and connectorHost to lock down the RMI server interface binding
connectorPort 1099 The port that the JMX connector will use
connectorHost localhost The host that the JMX connector and RMI server (if rmiServerPort>0) will use
rmiServerPort 0 The RMI server port, handy if port usage needs to be restricted behind a firewall
connectorPath /jmxrmi The path that JMX connector will be registered under
findTigerMBeanServer true Enables/disables the searching for the Java 5 platform MBeanServer
suppressMBean   List of MBean name patters to ignore

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