JMX

Since Camel 2.6

Camel JMX

Apache Camel has extensive support for JMX to allow you to monitor and control the Camel managed objects with a JMX client.

Camel also provides a JMX component that allows you to subscribe to MBean notifications. This page is about how to manage and monitor Camel using JMX.

Options

The JMX component has no options.

The JMX endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

jmx:serverURL

with the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (1 parameters):

Name Description Default Type

serverURL

Server url comes from the remaining endpoint. Use platform to connect to local JVM.

String

Query Parameters (30 parameters):

Name Description Default Type

bridgeErrorHandler (consumer)

Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler, which mean any exceptions occurred while the consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages, or the likes, will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.

false

boolean

format (consumer)

Format for the message body. Either xml or raw. If xml, the notification is serialized to xml. If raw, then the raw java object is set as the body.

xml

String

granularityPeriod (consumer)

The frequency to poll the bean to check the monitor (monitor types only).

10000

long

monitorType (consumer)

The type of monitor to create. One of string, gauge, counter (monitor types only).

String

objectDomain (consumer)

Required The domain for the mbean you’re connecting to

String

objectName (consumer)

The name key for the mbean you’re connecting to. This value is mutually exclusive with the object properties that get passed.

String

observedAttribute (consumer)

The attribute to observe for the monitor bean or consumer.

String

exceptionHandler (consumer)

To let the consumer use a custom ExceptionHandler. Notice if the option bridgeErrorHandler is enabled then this option is not in use. By default the consumer will deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.

ExceptionHandler

exchangePattern (consumer)

Sets the exchange pattern when the consumer creates an exchange.

ExchangePattern

executorService (advanced)

To use a custom shared thread pool for the consumers. By default each consume has their own thread-pool to process and route notifications.

ExecutorService

handback (advanced)

Value to handback to the listener when a notification is received. This value will be put in the message header with the key jmx.handback

Object

notificationFilter (advanced)

Reference to a bean that implements the NotificationFilter.

NotificationFilter

objectProperties (advanced)

Properties for the object name. These values will be used if the objectName param is not set

Map

reconnectDelay (advanced)

The number of seconds to wait before attempting to retry establishment of the initial connection or attempt to reconnect a lost connection

10

int

reconnectOnConnection Failure (advanced)

If true the consumer will attempt to reconnect to the JMX server when any connection failure occurs. The consumer will attempt to re-establish the JMX connection every 'x' seconds until the connection is made-- where 'x' is the configured reconnectionDelay

false

boolean

synchronous (advanced)

Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).

false

boolean

testConnectionOnStartup (advanced)

If true the consumer will throw an exception if unable to establish the JMX connection upon startup. If false, the consumer will attempt to establish the JMX connection every 'x' seconds until the connection is made — where 'x' is the configured reconnectionDelay

true

boolean

notifyDiffer (string)

If true, will fire a notification when the string attribute differs from the string to compare (string monitor or consumer). By default the consumer will notify match if observed attribute and string to compare has been configured.

false

boolean

notifyMatch (string)

If true, will fire a notification when the string attribute matches the string to compare (string monitor or consumer). By default the consumer will notify match if observed attribute and string to compare has been configured.

false

boolean

stringToCompare (string)

Value for attribute to compare (string monitor or consumer). By default the consumer will notify match if observed attribute and string to compare has been configured.

String

initThreshold (counter)

Initial threshold for the monitor. The value must exceed this before notifications are fired (counter monitor only).

int

modulus (counter)

The value at which the counter is reset to zero (counter monitor only).

int

offset (counter)

The amount to increment the threshold after it’s been exceeded (counter monitor only).

int

differenceMode (gauge)

If true, then the value reported in the notification is the difference from the threshold as opposed to the value itself (counter and gauge monitor only).

false

boolean

notifyHigh (gauge)

If true, the gauge will fire a notification when the high threshold is exceeded (gauge monitor only).

false

boolean

notifyLow (gauge)

If true, the gauge will fire a notification when the low threshold is exceeded (gauge monitor only).

false

boolean

thresholdHigh (gauge)

Value for the gauge’s high threshold (gauge monitor only).

Double

thresholdLow (gauge)

Value for the gauge’s low threshold (gauge monitor only).

Double

password (security)

Credentials for making a remote connection

String

user (security)

Credentials for making a remote connection

String

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-jmx-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

The component supports 2 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

camel.component.jmx.enabled

Enable jmx component

true

Boolean

camel.component.jmx.resolve-property-placeholders

Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.

true

Boolean

Activating JMX in Camel

Spring JAR dependency, required for Camel 2.8 or older

spring-context.jar, spring-aop.jar, spring-beans.jar, and spring-core.jar are needed on the classpath by Camel to be able to use JMX instrumentation. If these .jars are not on the classpath, Camel will fallback to non JMX mode. This situation is logged at WARN level using logger name org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext.

From Camel 2.9 onwards, the Spring JARs are no longer required to run Camel in JMX mode.

Using JMX to manage Apache Camel

By default, JMX instrumentation agent is enabled in Camel, which means that Camel runtime creates and registers MBean management objects with a MBeanServer instance in the VM. This allows Camel users to instantly obtain insights into how Camel routes perform down to the individual processor level.

The supported types of management objects are endpoint, route, service, and processor. Some of these management objects also expose lifecycle operations in addition to performance counter attributes.

The DefaultManagementNamingStrategy is the default naming strategy which builds object names used for MBean registration. By default, org.apache.camel is the domain name for all object names created by CamelNamingStrategy. The domain name of the MBean object can be configured by Java VM system property:

-Dorg.apache.camel.jmx.mbeanObjectDomainName=your.domain.name

Or, by adding a jmxAgent element inside the camelContext element in Spring configuration:

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
  <jmxAgent id="agent" mbeanObjectDomainName="your.domain.name"/>
    ...
</camelContext>

Spring configuration always takes precedence over system properties when they both present. It is true for all JMX related configurations.

Disabling JMX instrumentation agent in Camel

You can disable JMX instrumentation agent by setting the Java VM system property as follow:

-Dorg.apache.camel.jmx.disabled=true

The property value is treated as boolean.

Or, by adding a jmxAgent element inside the camelContext element in Spring configuration:

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
  <jmxAgent id="agent" disabled="true"/>
    ...
</camelContext>

Or in Camel 2.1 its a bit easier (not having to use JVM system property) if using pure Java as you can disable it as follows:

CamelContext camel = new DefaultCamelContext();
camel.disableJMX();

Locating a MBeanServer in the Java VM

Each CamelContext can have an instance of InstrumentationAgent wrapped inside the InstrumentationLifecycleStrategy. The InstrumentationAgent is the object that interfaces with a MBeanServer to register / unregister Camel MBeans. Multiple CamelContexts / InstrumentationAgents can / should share a MBeanServer. By default, Camel runtime picks the first MBeanServer returned by MBeanServerFactory.findMBeanServer method that matches the default domain name of org.apache.camel.

You may want to change the default domain name to match the MBeanServer instance that you are already using in your application. Especially, if your MBeanServer is attached to a JMX connector server, you will not need to create a connector server in Camel.

You can configure the matching default domain name via system property.

-Dorg.apache.camel.jmx.mbeanServerDefaultDomain=<your.domain.name>

Or, by adding a jmxAgent element inside the camelContext element in Spring configuration:

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
  <jmxAgent id="agent" mbeanServerDefaultDomain="your.domain.name"/>
    ...
</camelContext>

If no matching MBeanServer can be found, a new one is created and the new `MBeanServer’s default domain name is set according to the default and configuration as mentioned above.

It is also possible to use the PlatformMBeanServer when it is desirable to manage JVM MBeans by setting the system property. The MBeanServer default domain name configuration is ignored as it is not applicable.

Starting in next release (1.5), the default value of usePlatformMBeanServer will be changed to true. You can set the property to false to disable using platform MBeanServer.
-Dorg.apache.camel.jmx.usePlatformMBeanServer=True

Or, by adding a jmxAgent element inside the camelContext element in Spring configuration:

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
  <jmxAgent id="agent" usePlatformMBeanServer="true"/>
    ...
</camelContext>

Creating JMX RMI Connector Server

JMX connector server enables MBeans to be remotely managed by a JMX client such as JConsole; Camel JMX RMI connector server can be optionally turned on by setting system property and the MBeanServer used by Camel is attached to that connector server.

-Dorg.apache.camel.jmx.createRmiConnector=True

Or, by adding a jmxAgent element inside the camelContext element in Spring configuration:

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
  <jmxAgent id="agent" createConnector="true"/>
    ...
</camelContext>

JMX Service URL

The default JMX Service URL has the format:

service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:<registryPort>/<serviceUrlPath>

registryPort is the RMI registry port and the default value is 1099.

You can set the RMI registry port by system property.

-Dorg.apache.camel.jmx.rmiConnector.registryPort=<port number>

Or, by adding a jmxAgent element inside the camelContext element in Spring configuration:

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
  <jmxAgent id="agent" createConnector="true" registryPort="port number"/>
    ...
</camelContext>

serviceUrlPath is the path name in the URL and the default value is /jmxrmi/camel.

You can set the service URL path by system property.

-Dorg.apache.camel.jmx.serviceUrlPath=<path>

Setting ManagementAgent settings in Java

In Camel 2.4 onwards you can also set the various options on the ManagementAgent:

context.getManagementStrategy().getManagementAgent().setServiceUrlPath("/foo/bar");
context.getManagementStrategy().getManagementAgent().setRegistryPort(2113);
context.getManagementStrategy().getManagementAgent().setCreateConnector(true);

Or, by adding a jmxAgent element inside the camelContext element in Spring configuration:

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
  <jmxAgent id="agent" createConnector="true" serviceUrlPath="path"/>
    ...
</camelContext>

By default, RMI server object listens on a dynamically generated port, which can be a problem for connections established through a firewall. In such situations, RMI connection port can be explicitly set by the system property.

-Dorg.apache.camel.jmx.rmiConnector.connectorPort=<port number>

Or, by adding a jmxAgent element inside the camelContext element in Spring configuration:

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://activemq.apache.org/camel/schema/spring">
  <jmxAgent id="agent" createConnector="true" connectorPort="port number"/>
    ...
</camelContext>

When the connector port option is set, the JMX service URL will become:

service:jmx:rmi://localhost:<connectorPort>/jndi/rmi://localhost:<registryPort>/<serviceUrlPath>

The System Properties for Camel JMX support

Property Name value Description

org.apache.camel.jmx

true or false

if is true, it will enable jmx feature in Camel

See more system properties in this section below: jmxAgent Properties Reference.

How to use authentication with JMX

JMX in the JDK have features for authentication and also for using secure connections over SSL. You have to refer to the SUN documentation how to use this:

JMX inside an Application Server

Tomcat 6

See this page for details about enabling JMX in Tomcat.

In short, modify your catalina.sh (or catalina.bat in Windows) file to set the following options…​

 set CATALINA_OPTS=-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote \
    -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1099 \
    -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
    -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false
JBoss AS 4

By default JBoss creates its own MBeanServer. To allow Camel to expose to the same server follow these steps:

  1. Tell Camel to use the Platform MBeanServer (This defaults to true in Camel 1.5)

<camel:camelContext id="camelContext">
  <camel:jmxAgent id="jmxAgent" mbeanObjectDomainName="org.yourname" usePlatformMBeanServer="true"  />
</camel:camelContext>
  1. Alter your JBoss instance to use the Platform MBeanServer.

Add the following property to your JAVA_OPTS by editing run.sh or run.conf -Djboss.platform.mbeanserver. See http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/JBossMBeansInJConsole

WebSphere

Alter the mbeanServerDefaultDomain to be WebSphere:

<camel:jmxAgent id="agent" createConnector="true" mbeanObjectDomainName="org.yourname" usePlatformMBeanServer="false" mbeanServerDefaultDomain="WebSphere"/>
Oracle OC4j

The Oracle OC4J J2EE application server will not allow Camel to access the platform MBeanServer. You can identify this in the log as Camel will log a WARNING.

xxx xx, xxxx xx:xx:xx xx org.apache.camel.management.InstrumentationLifecycleStrategy onContextStart
WARNING: Could not register CamelContext MBean
java.lang.SecurityException: Unauthorized access from application: xx to MBean: java.lang:type=ClassLoading
        at oracle.oc4j.admin.jmx.shared.UserMBeanServer.checkRegisterAccess(UserMBeanServer.java:873)

To resolve this you should disable the JMX agent in Camel, see section Disabling JMX instrumentation agent in Camel.

Advanced JMX Configuration

The Spring configuration file allows you to configure how Camel is exposed to JMX for management. In some cases, you could specify more information here, like the connector’s port or the path name.

Example:

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
  <jmxAgent id="agent" createConnector="true" registryPort="2000" mbeanServerDefaultDomain="org.apache.camel.test"/>
    <route>
      <from uri="seda:start"/>
      <to uri="mock:result"/>
    </route>
</camelContext>

If you wish to change the Java 5 JMX settings you can use various JMX system properties

For example you can enable remote JMX connections to the Sun JMX connector, via setting the following environment variable (using set or export depending on your platform). These settings only configure the Sun JMX connector within Java 1.5+, not the JMX connector that Camel creates by default.

SUNJMX=-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=1616 \
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false

(The SUNJMX environment variable is simple used by the startup script for Camel, as additional startup parameters for the JVM. If you start Camel directly, you’ll have to pass these parameters yourself.)

jmxAgent Properties Reference

Spring property System property Default Value Description

id

The JMX agent name, and it is not optional

usePlatformMBeanServer

org.apache.camel.jmx.usePlatformMBeanServer

false, true - Release 1.5 or later

If true, it will use the MBeanServer from the JVM

mbeanServerDefaultDomain

org.apache.camel.jmx.mbeanServerDefaultDomain

org.apache.camel

The default JMX domain of the MBeanServer

mbeanObjectDomainName

org.apache.camel.jmx.mbeanObjectDomainName

org.apache.camel

The JMX domain that all object names will use

createConnector

org.apache.camel.jmx.createRmiConnect

false

If we should create a JMX connector (to allow remote management) for the MBeanServer

registryPort

org.apache.camel.jmx.rmiConnector.registryPort

1099

The port that the JMX RMI registry will use

connectorPort

org.apache.camel.jmx.rmiConnector.connectorPort

-1 (dynamic)

The port that the JMX RMI server will use

serviceUrlPath

org.apache.camel.jmx.serviceUrlPath

/jmxrmi/camel

The path that JMX connector will be registered under

onlyRegisterProcessorWithCustomId

org.apache.camel.jmx.onlyRegisterProcessorWithCustomId

false

Camel 2.0: If this option is enabled then only processors with a custom id set will be registered. This allows you to filer out unwanted processors in the JMX console.

statisticsLevel

All / Default

Camel 2.1: Configures the level for whether performance statistics is enabled for the MBean. See section Configuring level of granularity for performance statistics for more details. From Camel 2.16 onwards the All option is renamed to Default, and a new Extended option has been introduced which allows gathered additional runtime JMX metrics.

includeHostName

org.apache.camel.jmx.includeHostName

Camel 2.13: Whether to include the hostname in the MBean naming. From Camel 2.13 onwards this is default false, where as in older releases its default true. You can use this option to restore old behavior if really needed.

useHostIPAddress

org.apache.camel.jmx.useHostIPAddress

false

Camel 2.16: Whether to use hostname or IP Address in the service url when creating the remote connector. By default the hostname will be used.

loadStatisticsEnabled

org.apache.camel.jmx.loadStatisticsEnabled

false

Camel 2.16:Whether load statistics is enabled (gathers load statistics using a background thread per CamelContext).

endpointRuntimeStatisticsEnabled

org.apache.camel.jmx.endpointRuntimeStatisticsEnabled

true

Camel 2.16: Whether endpoint runtime statistics is enabled (gathers runtime usage of each incoming and outgoing endpoints).

Configuring whether to register MBeans always, for new routes or just by default

Since Camel 2.7

Camel now offers 2 settings to control whether or not to register mbeans

Option Default Description

registerAlways

false

If enabled then MBeans is always registered.

registerNewRoutes

true

If enabled then adding new routes after CamelContext has been started will also register MBeans from that given route.

By default Camel registers MBeans for all the routes configured when its starting. The registerNewRoutes option control if MBeans should also be registered if you add new routes thereafter. You can disable this, if you for example add and remove temporary routes where management is not needed.

Be a bit caution to use the registerAlways option when using dynamic EIP patterns such as the Recipient List having unique endpoints. If so then each unique endpoint and its associated services/producers would also be registered. This could potential lead to system degration due the rising number of mbeans in the registry. A MBean is not a light-weight object and thus consumes memory.

Monitoring Camel using JMX

Using JConsole to monitor Camel

The CamelContext should appear in the list of local connections, if you are running JConsole on the same host as Camel.

To connect to a remote Camel instance, or if the local process does not show up, use Remote Process option, and enter an URL. Here is an example localhost URL:service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:1099/jmxrmi/camel.

Using the Apache Camel with JConsole:

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Which endpoints are registered

In Camel 2.1 onwards only singleton endpoints are registered as the overhead for non singleton will be substantial in cases where thousands or millions of endpoints are used. This can happens when using a Recipient List EIP or from a ProducerTemplate that sends a lot of messages.

Which processors are registered

See this FAQ.

How to use the JMX NotificationListener to listen the camel events?

The Camel notification events give a coarse grained overview what is happening. You can see lifecycle event from context and endpoints and you can see exchanges being received by and sent to endpoints.

From Camel 2.4 you can use a custom JMX NotificationListener to listen the camel events.

First you need to set up a JmxNotificationEventNotifier before you start the CamelContext:

// Set up the JmxNotificationEventNotifier
notifier = new JmxNotificationEventNotifier();
notifier.setSource("MyCamel");
notifier.setIgnoreCamelContextEvents(true);
notifier.setIgnoreRouteEvents(true);
notifier.setIgnoreServiceEvents(true);

CamelContext context = new DefaultCamelContext(createRegistry());
context.getManagementStrategy().addEventNotifier(notifier);

Second you can register your listener for listening the event:

// register the NotificationListener
ObjectName on = ObjectName.getInstance("org.apache.camel:context=camel-1,type=eventnotifiers,name=JmxEventNotifier");
MyNotificationListener listener = new MyNotificationListener();
context.getManagementStrategy().getManagementAgent().getMBeanServer().addNotificationListener(on,
    listener,
    new NotificationFilter() {
        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

        public boolean isNotificationEnabled(Notification notification) {
            return notification.getSource().equals("MyCamel");
        }
    }, null);

Using the Tracer MBean to get fine grained tracing

Additionally to the coarse grained notifications above Camel 2.9.0 support JMX Notification for fine grained trace events.

These can be found in the Tracer MBean. To activate fine grained tracing you first need to activate tracing on the context or on a route.

This can either be done when configuring the context or on the context / route MBeans.

As a second step you have to set the jmxTraceNotifications attribute to true on the tracer. This can again be done when configuring the context or at runtime on the tracer MBean.

Now you can register for TraceEvent Notifications on the Tracer MBean using JConsole. There will be one Notification for every step on the route with all exchange and message details:

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Using JMX for your own Camel Code

Registering your own Managed Endpoints

Since Camel 2.0

You can decorate your own endpoints with Spring managed annotations @ManagedResource to allow to register them in the Camel MBeanServer and thus access your custom MBeans using JMX.

In Camel 2.1 we have changed this to apply other than just endpoints but then you need to implement the interface org.apache.camel.spi.ManagementAware as well. More about this later.

For example we have the following custom endpoint where we define some options to be managed:

@ManagedResource(description = "Our custom managed endpoint")
public class CustomEndpoint extends MockEndpoint implements ManagementAware<CustomEndpoint> {

    public CustomEndpoint(final String endpointUri, final Component component) {
        super(endpointUri, component);
    }

    public Object getManagedObject(CustomEndpoint object) {
        return this;
    }

    public boolean isSingleton() {
        return true;
    }

    protected String createEndpointUri() {
        return "custom";
    }

    @ManagedAttribute
    public String getFoo() {
        return "bar";
    }

    @ManagedAttribute
    public String getEndpointUri() {
        return super.getEndpointUri();
    }
}

Notice from Camel 2.9 onwards its encouraged to use the @ManagedResource, @ManagedAttribute, and @ManagedOperation from the org.apache.camel.api.management package. This allows your custom code to not depend on Spring JARs.

Programming your own Managed Services

Since Camel 2.1

Camel now offers to use your own MBeans when registering services for management. What that means is for example you can develop a custom Camel component and have it expose MBeans for endpoints, consumers and producers etc. All you need to do is to implement the interface org.apache.camel.spi.ManagementAware and return the managed object Camel should use.

Now before you think oh boys the JMX API is really painful and terrible, then yeah you are right. Lucky for us Spring though too and they created a range of annotations you can use to export management on an existing bean. That means that you often use that and just return this in the getManagedObject from the ManagementAware interface. For an example see the code example above with the CustomEndpoint.

Now in Camel 2.1 you can do this for all the objects that Camel registers for management which are quite a bunch, but not all.

For services which do not implement this ManagementAware interface then Camel will fallback to using default wrappers as defined in the table below:

Type MBean wrapper

CamelContext

ManagedCamelContext

Component

ManagedComponent

Endpoint

ManagedEndpoint

Consumer

ManagedConsumer

Producer

ManagedProducer

Route

ManagedRoute

Processor

ManagedProcessor

Tracer

ManagedTracer

Service

ManagedService

In addition to that there are some extended wrappers for specialized types such as:

Type MBean wrapper

ScheduledPollConsumer

ManagedScheduledPollConsumer

BrowsableEndpoint

ManagedBrowseableEndpoint

Throttler

ManagedThrottler

Delayer

ManagedDelayer

SendProcessor

ManagedSendProcessor

And in the future we will add additional wrappers for more EIP patterns.

ManagementNamingStrategy

Since Camel 2.1

Camel provides a pluggable API for naming strategy by org.apache.camel.spi.ManagementNamingStrategy. A default implementation is used to compute the MBean names that all MBeans are registered with.

Management naming pattern

Since Camel 2.10

From Camel 2.10 onwards we made it easier to configure a naming pattern for the MBeans. The pattern is used as part of the ObjectName as they key after the domain name.

By default Camel will use MBean names for the ManagedCamelContextMBean as follows:

org.apache.camel:context=localhost/camel-1,type=context,name=camel-1

And from Camel 2.13 onwards the hostname is not included in the MBean names, so the above example would be as follows:

org.apache.camel:context=camel-1,type=context,name=camel-1

If you configure a name on the CamelContext then that name is part of the ObjectName as well. For example if we have

<camelContext id="myCamel" ...>

Then the MBean names will be as follows:

org.apache.camel:context=localhost/myCamel,type=context,name=myCamel

Now if there is a naming clash in the JVM, such as there already exists a MBean with that given name above, then Camel will by default try to auto correct this by finding a new free name in the JMXMBeanServer by using a counter. As shown below the counter is now appended, so we have myCamel-1 as part of the ObjectName:

org.apache.camel:context=localhost/myCamel-1,type=context,name=myCamel

This is possible because Camel uses a naming pattern by default that supports the following tokens:

  • camelId = the CamelContext id (eg the name)

  • name - same as camelId

  • counter - an incrementing counter * bundleId - the OSGi bundle id (only for OSGi environments)

  • symbolicName - the OSGi symbolic name (only for OSGi environments)

  • version - the OSGi bundle version (only for OSGi environments)

The default naming pattern is differentiated between OSGi and non-OSGi as follows:

  • non OSGI: name

  • OSGi: bundleId-name

  • OSGi Camel 2.13: symbolicName

However if there is a naming clash in the JMXMBeanServer then Camel will automatic fallback and use the counter in the pattern to remedy this. And thus the following patterns will then be used:

  • non OSGI: name-counter

  • OSGi: bundleId-name-counter

  • OSGi Camel 2.13: symbolicName-counter

If you set an explicit naming pattern, then that pattern is always used, and the default patterns above is not used.

This allows us to have full control, very easily, of the naming for both the CamelContext id in the Registry as well the JMX MBeans in the JMXMBeanRegistry.

From Camel 2.15 onwards you can configure the default management name pattern using a JVM system property, to configure this globally for the JVM. Notice that you can override this pattern by configure it explicit, as shown in the examples further below.

Set a JVM system property to use a default management name pattern that prefixes the name with cool.

System.setProperty(JmxSystemPropertyKeys.MANAGEMENT_NAME_PATTERN, "cool-#name#");

So if we want to explicit name both the CamelContext and to use fixed MBean names, that do not change (eg has no counters), then we can use the new managementNamePattern attribute:

<camelContext id="myCamel" managementNamePattern="#name#">

Then the MBean names will always be as follows:

org.apache.camel:context=localhost/myCamel,type=context,name=myCamel

In Java, you can configure the managementNamePattern as follows:

context.getManagementNameStrategy().setNamePattern("#name#");

You can also use a different name in the managementNamePattern than the id, so for example we can do:

<camelContext id="myCamel" managementNamePattern="coolCamel">

You may want to do this in OSGi environments in case you do not want the OSGi bundle id as part of the MBean names. As the OSGi bundle id can change if you restart the server, or uninstall and install the same application. You can then do as follows to not use the OSGi bundle id as part of the name:

<camelContext id="myCamel" managementNamePattern="#name#">

Note this requires that myCamel is unique in the entire JVM. If you install a 2nd Camel application that has the same CamelContext id and managementNamePattern then Camel will fail upon starting, and report a MBean already exists exception.

ManagementStrategy

Since Camel 2.1

Camel now provides a totally pluggable management strategy that allows you to be 100% in control of management. It is a rich interface with many methods for management. Not only for adding and removing managed objects from the MBeanServer, but also event notification is provided as well using the org.apache.camel.spi.EventNotifier API. What it does, for example, is make it easier to provide an adapter for other management products. In addition, it also allows you to provide more details and features that are provided out of the box at Apache.

Configuring level of granularity for performance statistics

Since Camel 2.1

You can now set a pre set level whether performance statistics is enabled or not when Camel start ups. The levels are

  • Extended - As default but with additional statistics gathered during runtime such as fine grained level of usage of endpoints and more. This options requires Camel 2.16

  • All / Default - Camel will enable statistics for both routes and processors (fine grained). From Camel 2.16 onwards the All option was renamed to Default.

  • RoutesOnly - Camel will only enable statistics for routes (coarse grained)

  • Off - Camel will not enable statistics for any.

From Camel 2.9 onwards the performance statistics also include average load statistics per CamelContext and Route MBeans. The statistics is average load based on the number of in-flight exchanges, on a per 1, 5, and 15 minute rate. This is similar to load statistics on Unix systems. Camel 2.11 onwards allows you to explicit disable load performance statistics by setting loadStatisticsEnabled=false on the <jmxAgent>. Note that it will be off if the statics level is configured to off as well. From Camel 2.13 onwards the load performance statistics is by default disabled. You can enable this by setting loadStatisticsEnabled=true on the <jmxAgent>.

At runtime you can always use the management console (such as JConsole) to change on a given route or processor whether its statistics are enabled or not.

What does statistics enabled mean?

Statistics enabled means that Camel will do fine grained performance statistics for that particular MBean. The statistics you can see are many, such as: number of exchanges completed/failed, last/total/mina/max/mean processing time, first/last failed time, etc.

Using Java DSL you set this level by:

// only enable routes when Camel starts
context.getManagementStrategy().setStatisticsLevel(ManagementStatisticsLevel.RoutesOnly);

And from Spring DSL you do:

<camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
    <jmxAgent id="agent" statisticsLevel="RoutesOnly"/>
 ...
</camelContext>

Hiding sensitive information

Since Camel 2.12

By default, Camel enlists MBeans in JMX such as endpoints configured using URIs. In this configuration, there may be sensitive information such as passwords.

This information can be hidden by enabling the mask option as shown below:

Using Java DSL you turn this on by:

  // only enable routes when Camel starts
  context.getManagementStrategy().getManagementAgent().setMask(true);

And from Spring DSL you do:

    <camelContext id="camel" xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
        <jmxAgent id="agent" mask="true"/>
     ...
    </camelContext>

This will mask URIs having options such as password and passphrase, and use xxxxxx as the replacement value.

Declaring which JMX attributes and operations to mask

On the org.apache.camel.api.management.ManagedAttribute and org.apache.camel.api.management.ManagedOperation, the attribute mask can be set to true to indicate that the result of this JMX attribute/operation should be masked (if enabled on JMX agent, see above).

For example, on the default managed endpoints from camel-core org.apache.camel.api.management.mbean.ManagedEndpointMBean, we have declared that the EndpointUri JMX attribute is masked:

@ManagedAttribute(description = "Endpoint URI", mask = true)
String getEndpointUri();