Paul Graydon wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is anyone here that already has monitoring in 
> place and if so what do you monitor, and how is it useful for you?
>   
We use Sun, ehm, Oracle's JVM SNMP agent to monitor a few values such as
max/committed heap usage and number of threads. In a few occasions we
were able to spot memory leaks and inappropriate JVM memory settings as
well as thread leaks by looking at the long time graphs, but not much more.

(Most of) Java folks are big on code reuse, which for them apparently
means to just plug in appropriate libs, connect the black boxes with
some glue code and never bother to figure out what is really going on
inside, not even when things hit the fan. In such circumstances it is
very difficult to achieve the levels of cooperation to actually make
sense of the JVM metrics. I still grin when I remember the blank stares
Java folks are giving me when I start asking questions about inner
workings of the JVM, this appears to be a major heresy :)
> Also if anyone knows of any appropriate primers that might get me up to 
> scratch on this from a sysadmins perspective I'd appreciate it.  The 
> amount of information I've been able to dig up about what these items 
> actually mean is fairly minimal.
>   
If you find something, please share :)

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