Diagnostics and statistics for messages in aplication with Apache Camel and Active MQ

Question

In my disturbed java application I use Apache Camel and Active MQ for comminication between nodes. I want to store same data about queues in Active MQ. I want to make a statictics and automatically detect is a queue is not getting overload. I could not find any tools that Apache Camel and Active MQ provide to do such things. Do you know any? Or Maybe I just missed something in documentation.

Answer 1

There is also hawtio which is a HTML5 based web console for managing java stuff and has plugins for both Camel and ActiveMQ: http://hawt.io/

In the ActiveMQ 5.9 release the old web-console will be replaced with hawtio. And over time additionally functionally for ActiveMQ is being added to the ActiveMQ plugin.

Also if you use a Karaf based system, then there is karaf commands for ActiveMQ, which you can use to get queue stats etc.

Answer 2

In ActiveMQ you have a choice of a number of mechanisms:

• JMX - also accessible through REST/JSON via Jolokia, which is available by default from 5.8 and accessible on your system at http://localhost:8161/api/jolokia/
• statistics plugin for polling/querying via JMS
• advisory messages to have interesting broker events pushed to you via JMS