Lets assume you have enabled the monitoring capabilities of your tomcat.
If you do not know how to achieve this see my earlier posting here about.
Now it is cool to monitor your application on a regular basis.
Because I’m used to shell scripting in LINUX I present you here a scripting solution within a bash shell. But I’m sure you can do the same in Windows.
The idea is to set up a cron job ( for windows use the scheduler) and get the statuspage from your tomcat every – lets say – five minutes.
Get some of the interesting values out of this page and save them in a csv – File.
Create a new file every day. Perhaps you want to use this files as input for a spreadsheet program to create some nice charts.
But to be honest – this is a very special script – you have to adopt it to your needs.
This are the basic prerequisites:
- you need linux to run it (this script is developed on a SUSE – Distribution)
- eventually you need to install some tools (I think the w3m tool is not bundled with every linux distribution)
- this script only! works correct with a tomcat 6.0 version
#!/bin/bash
# -configure below-
HTTPPORT=”8080″ # The http Port of your tomcat
JKPORT=”8709″ # The Modjk Port of your tomcat (if your tomcat should be reachable from a apache webserver)
SERVER=”localhost:$HTTPPORT” # you can even monitor a tomcat on another server!
USER=”tomcat-oper” # the account and
PW=”IwantItAll” # password you have defined in tomcat-users.xml
APPL=”CoolAppl” # The name of your application
# -configure above-
TODAY=`date ‘+%m-%d-%y’`
TIME=`date ‘+%H:%M:%S’`
OUTFILE=”tomcat-stats-${TODAY}.csv”
#
#set -x # uncomment if you want to improve the script or if you are searching for a bug
#
# # If there is no csv-file create one and put a headerline in
if !(test -e $OUTFILE) then
echo “Time,FreeMemory,UsedMemory,MaxMemory,HttpThreadsMax,
HttpThreadsBusy,ModJKThreads,ModJKThreadsBusy,Sessions” > $OUTFILE
fi
# # get the statuspage from tomcat – filter it for the wanted informations – and create a temporary file
w3m -dump http://${USER}:${PW}@${SERVER}/manager/status/all| \
egrep “(memory|thread|Active sessions|
^JVM|$HTTPPORT|$JKPORT|${APPL})” >/tmp/tomcat-status
#
# # put the values in variables / uncomment to get a better understanding of the process
#
while read line
do
case $line in
JVM) read line
JVM_VALUE=`echo $line | awk ‘{print($3 “,” $7 “,” $11)}’`
# uncomment below if you want to debug
# echo “JVM_VALUE: <$JVM_VALUE>”
;;
*${HTTPPORT}) read line
HTTP_MAX_THREADS=`echo $line |awk ‘{print(“,” $3)}’`
# uncomment if you want to debug
# echo “HTTP_MAX_THREADS: <$HTTP_MAX_THREADS>”
HTTP_BSY_THREADS=`echo $line |awk ‘{print(“,” $11)}’`
# uncomment below if you want to debug
# echo “HTTP_BSY_THREADS: <$HTTP_BSY_THREADS>”
;;
*${JKPORT}) read line
MODJK_MAX_THREADS=`echo $line |awk ‘{print(“,” $3)}’`
# uncomment below if you want to debug
# echo “MODJK_MAX_THREADS: <$MODJK_MAX_THREADS>”
MODJK_BSY_THREADS=`echo $line |awk ‘{print(“,” $11)}’`
# uncomment below if you want to debug
# echo “MODJK_BSY_THREADS: <$MODJK_BSY_THREADS>”
;;
*${APPL}) read line
SESSION_CNT=`echo $line |awk ‘{print(“,” $3)}’`
# uncomment below if you want to debug
# echo “SESSION_CNT: <$SESSION_CNT>”
;;
*) ;;
esac
done < /tmp/tomcat-status
# # Now is the time to write the data to the csv-file
echo “${TIME},${JVM_VALUE}${HTTP_MAX_THREADS}${HTTP_BSY_THREADS}
${MODJK_MAX_THREADS}${MODJK_BSY_THREADS}${SESSION_CNT}” >>$OUTFILE
exit
*) be aware that based on word wrapping this script might not work instantly
Create a scriptfile (e.g. tomcat-check.sh) and apply the script to your tomcat. Then edit your crontab.
There should be a line like:
“*/5 * * * * cd ~/statistics; ./tomcat-check.sh 1>tomcat-check.log 2>&1”
And then the script should create the csv-files. I’m not used to excel – but even I managed to create a more or less interesting diagram from this data. Note how regular the memory behaves while there is no user session.
