Monitoring WSO2 products with logstash JMX input plugin
These days, I got the chance to play with ELK ( Elasticsearch , Logstash & Kibana ). These tools are a great way to analyze & visualize all logs. You can easily analyze all wso2carbon.log files from ELK. However we also needed to use ELK for monitoring WSO2 products and this post explains the essential steps to use logstash JMX input plugin to monitor WSO2 servers. Installing Logstash JMX input plugin Logstash has many inputs and the JMX input plugin is available under "contrib" We can use "plugin install contrib" command to install extra plugins. cd /opt/logstash/bin sudo ./plugin install contrib Note: If you use logstash 1.4.0 and encounter issues in loading the jmx4r, please refer Troubleshooting below. Logstash JMX input configuration When using the JMX input plugin, we can use a similar configuration as follows. We are keeping the logstash configs in "/etc/logstash/conf.d/logstash.conf" input { jmx{ path