Thank you everybody for the links and explanations. I am still curious whether JMX exposes more details than the Admin UI? I am thinking of a troubleshooting context, rather than long-term monitoring one.
Regards, Alex. Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ Current project: http://www.solr-start.com/ - Accelerating your Solr proficiency On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Gora Mohanty <g...@mimirtech.com> wrote: > On May 5, 2014 7:09 AM, "Alexandre Rafalovitch" <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have religiously kept <jmx> statement in my solrconfig.xml, thinking >> it was enabling the web interface statistics output. >> >> But looking at the server logs really closely, I can see that JMX is >> actually disabled without server present. And the Admin UI does not >> actually seem to care after a quick test. >> >> Does anybody have a real experience with Solr JMX? Does it expose more >> information than Admin UI's Plugins/Stats page? Is it good for >> > > Have not been using JMX lately, but we were using it in the past. It does > allow monitoring many useful details. As others have commented, it also > integrates well with other monitoring tools as JMX is a standard. > > Regards, > Gora