JMX Attributes

The JVM exposes a range of extremely useful monitoring locations

Core JVM

ObjectName Attributes Notes
java.lang:type=ClassLoading LoadedClassCount
java.lang:type=GarbageCollector,name=ConcurrentMarkSweep CollectionTime
CollectionCount
java.lang:type=GarbageCollector,name=ParNew CollectionTime
CollectionCount
java.lang:type=Memory HeapMemoryUsage.commited
HeapMemoryUsage.used
NonHeapMemoryUsage.commited
NonHeapMemoryUsage.used
java.lang:type=Threading ThreadCount

C3P0

The C3PO connection pool provides detailed JMX instrumentation.

The attributes let you monitor all aspects of the pool the operations are detailed on http://www.mchange.com/projects/c3p0/apidocs/com/mchange/v2/c3p0/PooledDataSource.html

Due to C3P0 naming of the beans you have to use a wildcard object name (and if using more that one connection a discrimator) to monitor them.