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Connection Pools: JBoss

Connection Pools: JBoss

Application server method of pooling and sharing connections to a database.

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Quickly glance over the status of your JBoss connection pools accross your whole environment with the included dashboard with the extension.Get insights into a specific connection pool thanks to the granularity of the metrics and their segregation into the new generic entities generated by the extension automatically.Get insights into both your normal connection pools and XA connection pools.
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Overview

Several built-in OneAgent extensions provide insight into connection pool performance and issues such as connection leaks. The extensions cover the following technologies: Apache Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere Liberty, and Red Hat JBoss and Wildfly.

Use cases

  • Collect connection pool performance, usage and availability metrics for JBoss.
  • Identify potential issues with connection pool utilization
  • Monitor both Non-XA and XA Connection Pools

Get started

To get metric insight:

  1. Install OneAgent on the virtual machine or server of your JBoss process.
  2. Activate the OneAgent feature Java Metric Extensions 2.0 (JMX).
  3. Select in this same tile Add to environment to configure the extension.
  4. Open the JBoss Connection Pool Overview dashboard.

Details

This extension package contains :

  • JMX data source configuration for metric ingestion
  • Topology and relationship definitions for JBoss Connection Pools and JBoss XA Connection Pools, as well as relationship definitions for connection pools and process group instances.
  • A Dashboard offering a monitoring overview of JBoss Connection Pools.
  • A Unified Analysis Page for each entity

This extension is built on top of the new Extension 2.0 Framework.

Compatibility information

  • Jboss process that runs on a supported Linux or Windows operating system.
  • Enabled statistics for JBoss EAP 6 / Application Server 7 and later.
  • OneAgent version 1.273+
  • Dynatrace version 1.273+

License Consumption

This extension queries for data every minute. Once data is produced, this is ingested as metric datapoints and subject to license consumption. Whether you are on a Classic or DPS license model, the measurement unit for metric ingestion is based on metric datapoints.

To estimate the amount of metric datapoints produced by your extension configuration, use the following list which gives you a number of metrics per feature set and a multiplier value depending on the number of connection pools being monitored. Add all of these up and you will have the number of datapoints produced every minute.

  • Connection pool time XA: 9 x number of connection pools
  • Connection pool XA: 5 x number of connection pools
  • Connection pool: 5 x number of connection pools
  • Connection pool time: 9 x number of connection pools

For example, a monitoring configuration where all feature sets are enabled, containing 1 Connection Pool, produces 28 metric datapoints per minute.

By extrapolation, it will ingest:

  • 28 x 60 x = 1,680 metric datapoints per hour
  • 28 x 60 x 24 = 40,320 metric datapoints per day
  • 28 x 60 x 24 x 365 = 14,716,800 metric datapoints per year

Included Metrics per host unit Because JMX Extensions run on OneAgent-monitored hosts, are subject to included metrics per host unit.

Please refer to the documentation depending on licensing type:

  • Classic Licensing | Included metrics per host unit
  • DPS | Included non-billable metric data points

Troubleshooting

  • To troubleshoot this extension, use the guide(s) in the Dynatrace Community.
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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included
screen injections
2
screen properties
2
screen layout
2
list screen layout
2
screen chart groups
4
screen entities lists
2
metric metadata
30
screen metric tables
2
screen actions
4
generic relationship
2
dashboards
1
generic type
2
metric query
2

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included
Metric nameMetric keyDescriptionUnit
Total blocking time (XA)jboss.connectionPool.TotalBlockingTimeXA.count-MilliSecond
Total get time (XA)jboss.connectionPool.TotalGetTimeXA.count-MilliSecond
Total creation time (XA)jboss.connectionPool.TotalCreationTimeXA.count-MilliSecond
Total usage time (XA)jboss.connectionPool.TotalUsageTimeXA.count-MilliSecond
Total pool time (XA)jboss.connectionPool.TotalPoolTimeXA.count-MilliSecond
Metric nameMetric keyDescriptionUnit
Max pool size (XA)jboss.connectionPool.maxPoolSizeXA-Count
Active count (XA)jboss.connectionPool.ActiveCountXA-Count
Available count (XA)jboss.connectionPool.AvailableCountXA-Count
Created count (XA)jboss.connectionPool.CreatedCountXA.count-Count
Destroyed count (XA)jboss.connectionPool.DestroyedCountXA.count-Count
Idle count (XA)jboss.connectionPool.IdleCountXA-Count
In use count (XA)jboss.connectionPool.InUseCountXA-Count
Timed out (XA)jboss.connectionPool.TimedOutXA.count-Count
Wait count (XA)jboss.connectionPool.WaitCountXA.count-Count
Metric nameMetric keyDescriptionUnit
Max pool sizejboss.connectionPool.maxPoolSize-Count
Active countjboss.connectionPool.ActiveCount-Count
Available countjboss.connectionPool.AvailableCount-Count
Created countjboss.connectionPool.CreatedCount.count-Count
Destroyed countjboss.connectionPool.DestroyedCount.count-Count
Idle countjboss.connectionPool.IdleCount-Count
In use countjboss.connectionPool.InUseCount-Count
Timed outjboss.connectionPool.TimedOut.count-Count
Wait countjboss.connectionPool.WaitCount.count-Count
Metric nameMetric keyDescriptionUnit
Total blocking timejboss.connectionPool.TotalBlockingTime.count-MilliSecond
Total creation timejboss.connectionPool.TotalCreationTime.count-MilliSecond
Total pool timejboss.connectionPool.TotalPoolTime.count-MilliSecond
Total get timejboss.connectionPool.TotalGetTime.count-MilliSecond
Total usage timejboss.connectionPool.TotalUsageTime.count-MilliSecond

Full version history

To have more information on how to install the downloaded package, please follow the instructions on this page.
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Full version history

  • Added new metrics:
    • func:jboss.connectionPool.currentUsage
    • func:jboss.connectionPool.currentUsageXA
  • Added charts for said metrics
  • Added properties to the JBoss connection pools for host and process
  • Added charts and properties in the lists for JBoss connection pools
    • Added filtering for these properties

Full version history

  • Fixed a bug where charts in Process Group Instances UA screen were not being populated.

Full version history

Fix a bug where Generic Types (Connection Pool and Connection Pool XA) were not being created.

Full version history

EF1.0 conversion to EF2.0:

  • Add JBoss connection pool entity and its relation to the JBoss process
  • Add JBoss XA connection pool entity and its relation to the JBoss process
  • Custom unified analysis screen for JBoss and JBoss XA connection pools
  • Metric chart injection into Process Group Instance screen
  • Overview dashboard for JBoss connection pools
  • Add feature sets to control included metrics
  • All metrics have changed key from the EF1 version. The prefix builtin:tech has been removed. This is a breaking change for any configuration you had which used the metric key, such as metric events.
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