java monitor

[Johnson Onu]

What is java-monitor

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear Onu,

Java-monitor is a widget on JavaRanch that you can use to monitor your Java application servers. It shows you memory use and mails in case the server goes off-line. Have a look here (http://java-monitor.com/welcome/1/1/java-monitor_javaranch.php) for more information on what Java-monitor does.

To use it, just log into the Tomcat forum and download the probe using the link on the widget. Unzip, drop the WAR into a Tomcat server and you are in business.

Hope this makes it a bit clearer?

Kees Jan

[Wirianto Djunaidi]

Whoa there Kees, your answer confused me a bit. You said

Java-monitor is a widget on JavaRanch that you can use to monitor your Java application servers.

Are you saying:
1. Java-monitor is monitoring our java application server, and the data is sent to JavaRanch which has web-based UI for us to view the data, so it is kind of SaaS offering from JavaRanch.
or
2. Java-monitor is a widget developed by JavaRanch and we can deploy on our server and monitor it on our local environment.


-DJ

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear Wirianto,

Woops. What gave you that idea? You can use the Java-monitor widget on JavaRanch to view statistics of your own application servers. You can't see the JavaRanch server stats, that would not be useful to you, would it?

Try the widget and see. That will make it clear I hope.

Kees Jan

[Wirianto Djunaidi]

Well Kees,

It was the quoted answer that gave me the idea
So, from your follow up answer than it was case #2 of my understanding?

I never thought that looking at JavaRanch stat only. That was why case #1 cross my mind, maybe java-monitor is a product develop by JavaRanch as an SaaS service which allow us to download module to run on our server, but the data goes to JavaRanch cloud where we have to pay for the ability to view the data. Maybe another way for JavaRanch to earn some income to support this nice website

-DJ

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear Wirianto,

It is case #1. MaaS offering (Monitoring as a Service).

Kees Jan

[Ulf Dittmer]

No, that's not what's happening. Java-monitor is Kees' product, here at JavaRanch we just happen to like it, so we integrated it in our forum software. That makes it easier to get started with Java-monitor, especially as it's easy to post your charts to the forum where Kees is often hanging out and can answer questions about them.

The data is not kept at JavaRanch (it goes to Java-monitor), and JavaRanch receives no income from it.

And the basic version is free to use.