App Agent
The App Agent is open-source, written in Java (but not limited to monitoring Java!), with a number of built-in integrations available from the sematext-agent-integrations repo. You can add your own integrations for monitoring additional infrastructure and services. Pull requests welcome!
Capabilities¶
The agent communicates with Sematext via HTTPS. It buffers data on disk in case it cannot immediately ship it, ensuring data is never lost.
Application monitoring¶
Lightweight and pluggable, this agent comes with a number of out of the box integrations. It has built-in support for collecting metrics from JMX, REST APIs, and from databases that support JDBC.
App Agent Run modes¶
Embedded¶
The Embedded mode can be used only for monitoring JVM-based applications since it runs as a Java Agent inside the Java process. With the Embedded monitor, when setting it up for the first time or when upgrading the monitor, one needs to change the command-line and restart the process in which the monitor is running (i.e., the process of the application being monitored), but once that is done, the monitor runs seamlessly in-process. See Embedded Mode for more info.
Standalone¶
In the Standalone mode the agent runs in a separate process and can thus be used for monitoring both Java and non-JVM-based applications. If access to JMX is required and the application to monitor does not have JMX enabled, one will have to adjust application's command-line parameters to enable JMX and that will require application process restart. However, once that is set up, subsequent agent updates will not require the application restart. See Standalone Mode for more info.
Requirements¶
Java 6 and above.