Zorka with ActiveMQ

[David Rooke]

Hi,
Do you have any instructions I can use as a basis for setting up Zorka with activemq? I'm new to zorka and so am not making any assumptions about what I need to do or which of the existing resources listed on your site apply best.

Also, I have a secondary question if you don't mind. Activemq 5.9.x can run in failover cluster mode. When running like this only the master runs a jetty server and the master node can change arbitrarily. Would this version have any impact or implications for setting up and using zorka with activemq?


Regards,
David

[Rafal Lewczuk]

Hi,

I was setting up Zorka with ActiveMQ in basic zabbix integration mode in production. No sophisticated bytecode instrumentation was used but I think it should also work well.

Regards,
rle

[Rafal Lewczuk]

Regarding clustered mode: I assume that each node works on its own server with its own IP address etc.

My suggestion is to run zorka on both nodes configured as for active node (jetty support enabled - if it needs to be monitored etc).

In Zabbix you should also configure both hosts and alert triggers should embrace that this is active-passive cluster (so alarm is raised when there is no jetty functioning on neither node etc.). Regarding performance statistics collected with zorka (or transaction traces), I'd configure independent collection of stats for both nodes.

Regards,
rle

[ragh...@i10n.com]

I have recently configured zorka for Apache ActiveMQ.

But Zabbix could not discover any poolers in ActiveMQ.

I have added the Apache ActiveMQ Template in Zabbix already.

[David Rooke]

You'll to write a bash script which understands the structure of the actvemq mbeans and have that loaded by the agent. Then you'll be able to do discovery. It took some effort on my part to get that working.

If you search through the mailing list you should see posts exchange between myself and rafael discussing some of the problems I encountered. if I recall correctly, this thread was just the start of those exchanges...