Chapter 8. Managing and Monitoring Infinispan

This chapter is about using different tools to manage and monitor your Infinispan caches and their underlying JVM environment. You will learn about Java Management Extensions (JMX) and how Infinispan uses this technology to interact with a local or remote cache, to provide statistical information and control important events that might occur in your data grid. You will also learn how to use JMX and the Infinispan API to create and register your own MBean to expose any information you want.

In the following sections, we will analyze the following topics:

  • JMX Technology and MBeans
  • Interacting with Infinispan via JMX
  • JMX clients such as JConsole and Visual VM
  • The RHQ project

An overview of monitoring and managing ...

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