What tools can be used to monitor jms broker in GlassFish

Question

I use Open MQ GUI Administration Console (in Glassfish installation directory) and QBrowser . Are any other tools to be considered?

Answer 1

Glassfish uses "Open Message Queue" and it comes with a GUI admin tool plus a full suite of command line tools. You can find these in the Glassfish/imq/bin folder.

You can also use a 3rd party app if you wanted as well, you just need to supply the connection info.

Visit the Oracle GlassFish Server Message Queue 4.5 Administration Guide for more info.

Answer 2

Starting with Payara 5 (fork of Glassfish 5) there is a new option for monitoring via a REST style api on top of JMX: https://blog.payara.fish/rest-monitoring-in-payara-server

To enable that go to Admin Console / Monitoring. Then you are able to use all the available MBeans.

For example to see number of messages currently in DMQ:

https://localhost:4848/rest-monitoring/rest/read/com.sun.messaging.jms.server:type=DestinationManager,subtype=Monitor