Apache Geode

Management and Monitoring Features

Apache Geode uses a federated Open MBean strategy to manage and monitor all members of the cluster. This strategy gives you a consolidated, single-agent view of the cluster.

Application and manager development is much easier because you do not have to find the right MBeanServer to make a request on an MBean. Instead, you interact with a single MBeanServer that aggregates MBeans from all other local and remote MBeanServers.

Some other key advantages and features of Geode administration architecture:

• Geode monitoring is tightly integrated into Geode’s processes instead of running in a separately installed and configured monitoring agent. You can use the same framework to actually manage Geode and perform administrative operations, not just monitor it.
• All Geode MBeans are MXBeans. They represent useful and relevant information on the state of the cluster and all its members. Because MXBeans use the Open MBean model with a predefined set of types, clients and remote management programs do not require access to model-specific classes representing your MBean types. Using MXBeans adds flexibility to your selection of clients and makes the Geode management and monitoring much easier to use.
• Each member in the cluster is manageable through MXBeans, and each member hosts its own MXBeans in a Platform MBeanServer.
• Any Geode member can be configured to provide a federated view of all the MXBeans for all members in a Geode cluster.
• Geode has also modified its use of JMX to be industry-standard and friendly to generic JMX clients. You can now easily monitor or manage the cluster by using any third-party tool that is compliant with JMX. For example, JConsole.

References

For more information on MXBeans and Open MBeans, see:

• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/javax/management/MXBean.html
• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/javax/management/openmbean/package-summary.html