Alexandre, you could use something like http://blog.sematext.com/2012/09/25/new-tool-jmxc-jmx-console/ to quickly dump everything out of JMX and see if there is anything there Solr Admin UI doesn't expose. I think you'll find there is more in JMX than Solr Admin UI shows.
Otis -- Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >
