Sunday, February 24, 2013

Servlet Monitoring with Metrics

Metrics from Coda Hale is a wonderful library to ease the monitoring of the performance of your code. It gives you tons of metrics directly via JMX, logs or CSV files.

I use it to monitor the performance of servlet in a JEE6 application. It is very simple to set up:
  1. Add the following dependency to your pom.xml:
  2. Declare a Timer:
         * the timer for monitoring incoming HTTP POST requests.
        private final Timer postTimer = Metrics.newTimer(getClass(), "post-requests-timer", TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    This code instantiates a new Timer where duration is measured in milliseconds and rate in seconds (to compute request per second).

  3. Use the previous Timer when handling HTTP request:
         * Handles the HTTP
         * POST method.
         * @param request servlet request
         * @param response servlet response
         * @throws ServletException if a servlet-specific error occurs
         * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
        protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
            // starts stopwatch
            final TimerContext context = postTimer.time();
            // handles request and response, calls business logic
            // ends stopwatch
  4. Put some load on your servlet and monitor it using JConsole for instance:



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