JAPMRMT: JAVA APPLICATION PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND RESOURCE MGMT TOOLKIT

This paper describes “Java Application Performance Monitoring and Resource Management Toolkit” (JAPMRMT), which is developed for monitoring the application as well as taking corrective action to reduce the human intervention and make sure the environment to be healthy and functional always. The limitation of the existing Application Monitoring (APM) tools follow reactive approach that provides information about the impacted component/system but doesn't have the capability to take corrective measures. On the other hand, JAPMRMT monitors the application-performance parameters and OS components, where it observes the behavior and take proactive-action when any of the strange pattern get acknowledge. JAPMRMT monitors the application and OS components through event traces, where each event symbolizes the occurrence of any issue in the environment for eg. Application-performance downgrade/high response-time/high volume of load or high resource-utilization etc. JAPMRMT is an open toolkit, its event trace API can be used to analyze the availability/performance-matrix of application and OS components. Tool-Overhead w.r.t OS resource utilization is also reduced by categorizing the applications in groups i.e. Platinum (most critical), gold (core, business hours) and silver (less risky), where each group has different monitoring-mechanism and time-window. The primary purpose of JAPMRMT is to explore the new dimension of administrative-approach of APM monitoring-tools to make it more powerful and reliable in order to recognize as well as rectify the problem simultaneously.