How can I monitor REST service with RHQ

[huchangchun]

Dear RHQ team,

Can we monitor REST service with RHQ?

We develop some REST service in a web application which will be deployed on JBoss AS Server. We would like to monitor the REST service with RHQ. Is it possible? I don't find related code from RHQ agent description file, rhq-plugin.xml, of JBoss AS 5 and JBoss AS 7.

Thank you very much for your help.

[tsegismont]

Hi,

With the netservices plugin you cant monitor HTTP endpoints. You'll get availability reports, connection time and read time metrics. There is currently no option to send POST/PUT/DELETE requests, only HEAD and GET methods are supported. We are open to contributions

Regards,

Thomas

[mazz]

I blogged about that netservices plugin last year - this might be helpful : http://management-platform.blogspot.com/2012/11/monitoring-ip-endpoints-via-rhq.html

Note that Thomas updated that plugin after I submitted that blog - so my plea at the end of that blog to ask someone to fix it up was answered by Thomas )

[tsegismont]

Right: http://tsegismont.blogspot.fr/2013/03/rhq-net-services-plugin-enhancements.html

[huchangchun]

We would like to get the performance metric of our REST service, such as number of requests it processed, max processing time, min processing time, average processing time. Since we can such metrics of web service, I thought we could get such metrics of REST service too. It seems wrong now. Do you have any other suggestion? Many Thanks.

[genman]

Have you see this? There is a section on response times.

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Operations_Network/3.1/html/How_to_Manage_JBoss_Servers/jboss-rt-seven.html