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Apache Tomcat

StackState Self-hosted v4.6.x

This page describes StackState version 4.6.
Go to the documentation for the latest StackState release.
Overview
This check collects Tomcat metrics, for example:
Overall activity metrics: error count, request count, processing times
Thread pool metrics: thread count, number of threads busy
Servlet processing times
And more.
Apache Tomcat is a StackState curated integration.
Setup
Installation
The Tomcat check is included in the Agent V2 StackPack, so you don't need to install anything else on your Tomcat servers.
This check is JMX-based, so you need to enable JMX Remote on your Tomcat servers. Follow the instructions in the Tomcat documentation to do that.
Configuration
1.Edit the tomcat.d/conf.yaml file, in the conf.d/ folder at the root of your Agent's configuration directory to start collecting your Tomcat metrics and logs. See the sample tomcat.d/conf.yaml for all available configuration options.
2.Restart the Agent
Metric Collection
Add this configuration block to your tomcat.yaml file to start gathering your Tomcat metrics:
instances:
    -   host: localhost
        port: 7199
        user: <TOMCAT_USERNAME>
        password: <PASSWORD>
        name: my_tomcat
​
init_config:
  conf:
    - include:
        type: ThreadPool
        attribute:
          maxThreads:
            alias: tomcat.threads.max
            metric_type: gauge
          currentThreadCount:
            alias: tomcat.threads.count
            metric_type: gauge
          currentThreadsBusy:
            alias: tomcat.threads.busy
            metric_type: gauge
    - include:
        type: GlobalRequestProcessor
        attribute:
          bytesSent:
            alias: tomcat.bytes_sent
            metric_type: counter
          bytesReceived:
            alias: tomcat.bytes_rcvd
            metric_type: counter
          errorCount:
            alias: tomcat.error_count
            metric_type: counter
          requestCount:
            alias: tomcat.request_count
            metric_type: counter
          maxTime:
            alias: tomcat.max_time
            metric_type: gauge
          processingTime:
            alias: tomcat.processing_time
            metric_type: counter
    - include:
        j2eeType: Servlet
        attribute:
          processingTime:
            alias: tomcat.servlet.processing_time
            metric_type: counter
          errorCount:
            alias: tomcat.servlet.error_count
            metric_type: counter
          requestCount:
            alias: tomcat.servlet.request_count
            metric_type: counter
    - include:
        type: Cache
        attribute:
          accessCount:
            alias: tomcat.cache.access_count
            metric_type: counter
          hitsCounts:
            alias: tomcat.cache.hits_count
            metric_type: counter
    - include:
        type: JspMonitor
        attribute:
          jspCount:
            alias: tomcat.jsp.count
            metric_type: counter
          jspReloadCount:
            alias: tomcat.jsp.reload_count
            metric_type: counter
See the JMX Check documentation for a list of configuration options usable by all JMX-based checks. The page also describes how the Agent tags JMX metrics.
Restart the Agent to start sending Tomcat metrics to StackState.
Configuration Options:
Option
Required
Description
user and password
No
Username and password
process_name_regex
No
Instead of specifying a host and port or jmx_url, the Agent can connect using the attach api. This requires the JDK to be installed and the path to tools.jar to be set.
tools_jar_path
No
Should be set when process_name_regex is set.
java_bin_path
No
Should be set if the Agent cannot find your java executable.
java_options
No
Java JVM options
trust_store_path and trust_store_password
No
Should be set if com.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl is set to true on the target JVM.
key_store_path and key_store_password
No
Should be set if com.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl.need.client.auth is set to true on the target JVM.
rmi_registry_ssl
No
Should be set to true if com.sun.management.jmxremote.registry.ssl is set to true on the target JVM.
The conf parameter is a list of dictionaries. Only 2 keys are allowed in this dictionary:
Key
Required
Description
include
Yes
A dictionary of filters. Any attribute that matches these filters are collected unless it also matches the "exclude" filters.
exclude
No
A dictionary of filters. Attributes that match these filters won't be collected.
For a given bean, metrics get tagged in the following manner:
mydomain:attr0=val0,attr1=val1
Your metric is mydomain (or some variation depending on the attribute inside the bean) and has the tags attr0:val0, attr1:val1, domain:mydomain.
If you specify an alias in an include key that is formatted as camel case, it is converted to snake case. For example, MyMetricName is shown in StackState as my_metric_name.
See the sample tomcat.yaml for all available configuration options.
The attribute filter
The attribute filter accepts two types of values:
A dictionary whose keys are attributes names:
  conf:
    - include:
        attribute:
          maxThreads:
            alias: tomcat.threads.max
            metric_type: gauge
          currentThreadCount:
            alias: tomcat.threads.count
            metric_type: gauge
          bytesReceived:
            alias: tomcat.bytes_rcvd
            metric_type: counter
For the case above, the metric aliases specified become the metric name in StackState. Also, the metric type can be specified as a gauge or counter. If you choose counter, a rate per second is computed for this metric.
A list of attributes names:
  conf:
    - include:
        domain: org.apache.cassandra.db
        attribute:
          - BloomFilterDiskSpaceUsed
          - BloomFilterFalsePositives
          - BloomFilterFalseRatio
          - Capacity
          - CompressionRatio
          - CompletedTasks
          - ExceptionCount
          - Hits
          - RecentHitRate
In that case:
The metric type is a gauge
The metric name is jmx.\[DOMAIN_NAME].\[ATTRIBUTE_NAME]
Here is another filtering example:
instances:
  - host: 127.0.0.1
    name: jmx_instance
    port: 9999
​
init_config:
  conf:
    - include:
        bean: org.apache.cassandra.metrics:type=ClientRequest,scope=Write,name=Latency
        attribute:
          - OneMinuteRate
          - 75thPercentile
          - 95thPercentile
          - 99thPercentile
  conf:
    - include:
        domain: domain_name
        bean:
          - first_bean_name
          - second_bean_name
Log Collection
Tomcat uses by default the log4j logger. To activate the logging into a file and customize the log format edit the log4j.properties file in the $CATALINA_BASE/lib directory as follows:
log4j.rootLogger = INFO, CATALINA
​
 # Define all the appenders
log4j.appender.CATALINA = org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.CATALINA.File = /var/log/tomcat/catalina.log
log4j.appender.CATALINA.Append = true
​
 # Roll-over the log once per day
log4j.appender.CATALINA.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.CATALINA.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p [%t] %c{1}:%L - %m%n
​
log4j.appender.LOCALHOST = org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.File = /var/log/tomcat/localhost.log
log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.Append = true
log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.LOCALHOST.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p [%t] %c{1}:%L - %m%n
​
log4j.appender.MANAGER = org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.MANAGER.File = /var/log/tomcat/manager.log
log4j.appender.MANAGER.Append = true
log4j.appender.MANAGER.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.MANAGER.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p [%t] %c{1}:%L - %m%n
​
log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER = org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.File = /var/log/tomcat/host-manager.log
log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.Append = true
log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.HOST-MANAGER.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p [%t] %c{1}:%L - %m%n
​
log4j.appender.CONSOLE = org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p [%t] %c{1}:%L - %m%n
​
 # Configure which loggers log to which appenders
log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost] = INFO, LOCALHOST
log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager] =\
  INFO, MANAGER
log4j.logger.org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/host-manager] =\
  INFO, HOST-MANAGER
Check Tomcat logging documentation for more information about Tomcat logging capabilities.
Collecting logs is disabled by default in the StackState Agent, enable it in your stackstate.yaml file with:
logs_enabled: true
Add this configuration block to your tomcat.d/conf.yaml file to start collecting your Tomcat Logs:
logs:
  - type: file
    path: /var/log/tomcat/*.log
    source: tomcat
    service: myapp
    #To handle multi line that starts with yyyy-mm-dd use the following pattern
    #log_processing_rules:
    #  - type: multi_line
    #    name: log_start_with_date
    #    pattern: \d{4}\-(0?[1-9]|1[012])\-(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])
Change the path and service parameter values and configure them for your environment. See the sample tomcat.yaml for all available configuration options.
Restart the Agent.
Validation
Run the Agent's status subcommand and look for tomcat under the Checks section.
Data Collected
Metrics
See metadata.csv for a list of metrics provided by this check.
Events
The Tomcat check does not include any events.
Service Checks
tomcat.can_connect Returns CRITICAL if the Agent is unable to connect to and collect metrics from the monitored Tomcat instance. Returns OK otherwise.
Troubleshooting
Commands to view the metrics that are available:
List attributes that match at least one of your instance configurations:
sudo /etc/init.d/stackstate-agent jmx list_matching_attributes
List attributes that match one of your instance configurations but that are not collected because it would exceed the number of metrics that can be collected:
sudo /etc/init.d/stackstate-agent jmx list_limited_attributes
List attributes that are actually collected by your current instance configurations:
sudo /etc/init.d/stackstate-agent jmx list_collected_attributes
List attributes that don't match any of your instance configurations:
sudo /etc/init.d/stackstate-agent jmx list_not_matching_attributes
List every attribute available that has a type supported by JMXFetch:
sudo /etc/init.d/stackstate-agent jmx list_everything
Start the collection of metrics based on your current configuration and display them in the console:
sudo /etc/init.d/stackstate-agent jmx collect

Option	Required	Description
`user` and `password`	No	Username and password
`process_name_regex`	No	Instead of specifying a host and port or `jmx_url`, the Agent can connect using the attach api. This requires the JDK to be installed and the path to tools.jar to be set.
`tools_jar_path`	No	Should be set when `process_name_regex` is set.
`java_bin_path`	No	Should be set if the Agent cannot find your java executable.
`java_options`	No	Java JVM options
`trust_store_path` and `trust_store_password`	No	Should be set if `com.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl` is set to true on the target JVM.
`key_store_path` and `key_store_password`	No	Should be set if `com.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl.need.client.auth` is set to true on the target JVM.
`rmi_registry_ssl`	No	Should be set to true if `com.sun.management.jmxremote.registry.ssl` is set to true on the target JVM.

Key	Required	Description
`include`	Yes	A dictionary of filters. Any attribute that matches these filters are collected unless it also matches the "exclude" filters.
`exclude`	No	A dictionary of filters. Attributes that match these filters won't be collected.

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