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ActiveMQ

ActiveMQ

Plugin: go.d.plugin Module: activemq

Overview

This collector monitors ActiveMQ queues and topics.

It collects metrics by sending HTTP requests to the Web Console API.

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This collector discovers instances running on the local host that provide metrics on port 8161. On startup, it tries to collect metrics from:

  • http://localhost:8161

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

The configuration file name for this integration is go.d/activemq.conf.

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config go.d/activemq.conf

Options

The following options can be defined globally: update_every, autodetection_retry.

Name Description Default Required
update_every Data collection frequency. 1 False
autodetection_retry Recheck interval in seconds. Zero means no recheck will be scheduled. 0 False
url Server URL. http://localhost:8161 True
webadmin Webadmin root path. admin True
max_queues Maximum number of concurrently collected queues. 50 False
max_topics Maximum number of concurrently collected topics. 50 False
queues_filter Queues filter. Syntax is simple patterns. False
topics_filter Topics filter. Syntax is simple patterns. False
username Username for basic HTTP authentication. False
password Password for basic HTTP authentication. False
proxy_username Username for proxy basic HTTP authentication. False
proxy_password Password for proxy basic HTTP authentication. False
method HTTP request method. GET False
timeout HTTP request timeout. 1 False
body HTTP request body. False
headers HTTP request headers. False
not_follow_redirects Redirect handling policy. Controls whether the client follows redirects. False False
tls_skip_verify Server certificate chain and hostname validation policy. Controls whether the client performs this check. False False
tls_ca Certification authority that the client uses when verifying the server’s certificates. False
tls_cert Client TLS certificate. False
tls_key Client TLS key. False

Examples

Basic

A basic example configuration.

jobs:
  - name: local
    url: http://127.0.0.1:8161
    webadmin: admin

HTTP authentication

Basic HTTP authentication.

jobs:
  - name: local
    url: http://127.0.0.1:8161
    webadmin: admin
    username: foo
    password: bar

Filters and limits

Using filters and limits for queues and topics.

jobs:
  - name: local
    url: http://127.0.0.1:8161
    webadmin: admin
    max_queues: 100
    max_topics: 100
    queues_filter: '!sandr* *'
    topics_filter: '!sandr* *'

Multi-instance

Note: When you define multiple jobs, their names must be unique.

Collecting metrics from local and remote instances.

jobs:
  - name: local
    url: http://127.0.0.1:8161
    webadmin: admin

  - name: remote
    url: http://192.0.2.1:8161
    webadmin: admin

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per ActiveMQ instance

These metrics refer to the entire monitored application.

This scope has no labels.

Metrics:

Metric Dimensions Unit
activemq.messages enqueued, dequeued messages/s
activemq.unprocessed_messages unprocessed messages
activemq.consumers consumers consumers

Alerts

There are no alerts configured by default for this integration.

Troubleshooting

Debug Mode

To troubleshoot issues with the activemq collector, run the go.d.plugin with the debug option enabled. The output should give you clues as to why the collector isn’t working.

  • Navigate to the plugins.d directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/. If that’s not the case on your system, open netdata.conf and look for the plugins setting under [directories].

    cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
    
  • Switch to the netdata user.

    sudo -u netdata -s
    
  • Run the go.d.plugin to debug the collector:

    ./go.d.plugin -d -m activemq
    

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