Profiler work for realtime time-series data?

[brc135]

Hi, I'm currently working on a research project involving JBoss where we want to monitor time-series data from JBoss. Ideally it would be nice to monitor a bunch of different set of objects (EJBs, Servlets, methods) and some attributes on those objects (CPU, # active, etc.)

Would it be possible to read the log data while it is being created -- online? Or does all data need to be analyzed in an offline fashion with the web app?

It would also help me in evaluation is anyone had some sample logs they could share.

Thanks very much for help.
Brian

[brc135]

I got it up and working (I think)...

My next question is, is there a way to look / analyze the logs files without the webapp? If so, how do you get at the data, it seems to be a binary file...

And can this be done while the profiler is still logging?

[clebert.suconic]

There is no way to analyze the data while the profiler still capturing data. I need the logs closed before analyzing the data.

[brc135]

Thanks for the reply, do you know of any other tools / programs that might work for us?