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Monitoring Dashboards for Servers, Server Groups, and Clusters

Monitor your hybrid standalone infrastructure through comprehensive performance dashboards that provide real-time visibility into server health, resource utilization, and system performance across your distributed runtime environment.

Overview

Runtime Manager provides comprehensive infrastructure monitoring dashboards for your hybrid standalone environment, so you can:

  • Monitor real-time server performance metrics and resource utilization

  • Analyze historical trends for capacity planning and optimization

  • Track JVM performance including memory usage, garbage collection, and thread activity

  • View aggregated metrics across server groups and clusters

  • Identify performance bottlenecks and system health issues

  • Make data-driven decisions for infrastructure scaling and maintenance

To view infrastructure dashboards, you must have the Runtime Manager Read Servers permission for the target servers.

Anypoint Platform Private Cloud Edition doesn’t support the Anypoint Monitoring dashboard feature.

Runtime Manager provides these infrastructure monitoring dashboards:

Server Monitoring Dashboard

Monitor individual server performance through comprehensive dashboards that provide real-time visibility into system resources, JVM metrics, and operational health indicators.

The server monitoring dashboard provides detailed insights into your hybrid standalone server performance, including:

  • System resource utilization (CPU, memory, disk I/O)

  • JVM heap and non-heap memory allocation and usage

  • Garbage collection performance and frequency

  • Thread management and execution metrics

  • Memory breakdown by allocation pools (Eden, Survivor, Old Generation)

  • Class loading and code cache utilization

Access Server Dashboard

To access the server monitoring dashboard:

  1. In Runtime Manager, click Servers.

  2. Click the name of the server to monitor.

    The server dashboard displays with comprehensive performance metrics:

    Monitoring dashboard for a server

You can also navigate to individual server dashboards from the server group or cluster dashboard by clicking individual server names.

Dashboard Navigation and Features

The server monitoring dashboard provides two complementary tab views for comprehensive performance analysis:

  • Overview
    High-level system metrics including CPU usage, heap memory, and overall server health

  • Breakdown
    Detailed JVM memory analysis with individual allocation pools and garbage collection metrics

Time Range Selection

Monitor performance across different time periods using the time range selector:

Time range selector for monitoring dashboards

Available time ranges include:

  • 3 Hours: Real-time monitoring with minute-level granularity

  • 24 Hours: Recent performance with 8-minute averaging

  • 7 Days: Weekly trends with hourly data points

  • 2 Weeks: Historical analysis with 2-hour averaging

Interactive Data Exploration

Enhance your analysis with interactive dashboard features:

  • Display numerical values and timestamps by hovering over graph points

  • When multiple applications run on the server, filter performance data by specific applications using the application checkboxes

Hover tooltip showing detailed metrics information

The memory usage graphs on the dashboards track these values:

  • Usage
    Current memory consumption (MB) - indicates active memory allocation

  • Total
    Maximum available memory (MB) - represents the upper limit for memory allocation

  • Committed
    Memory guaranteed by the JVM (MB) - always greater than or equal to used memory

If the JVM attempts to increase used memory beyond committed memory, allocation fails even when total memory is available. Monitor committed vs. used memory ratios for optimal performance.

Overview Tab

The Overview tab provides essential system health metrics for rapid assessment of server performance and resource utilization.

Heap Memory

Monitor JVM heap memory allocation and usage patterns to optimize application performance:

Heap Memory monitoring dashboard with usage metrics

  • Heap Memory Usage: Current heap allocation in MB

  • Total Heap Memory: Maximum heap size configured for the JVM

  • Heap Committed Memory: Memory guaranteed by the JVM for heap operations

Use heap memory metrics to:

  • Identify memory leaks and excessive allocation patterns

  • Optimize JVM heap size configuration (-Xmx and -Xms parameters)

  • Plan capacity for application deployment and scaling

If heap usage consistently approaches total memory, consider increasing heap size or analyzing application memory usage patterns. See the Breakdown Tab for detailed memory pool analysis.

CPU

Track processor utilization and system load to ensure optimal server performance:

Monitoring dashboard for CPU
CPU metrics are not available on Windows environments due to platform-specific monitoring constraints.

  • CPU Usage
    Percentage of processing capacity utilized

  • Available Processors
    Number of CPU cores available to the JVM

  • Load Average
    Average number of processes waiting for CPU execution

Load Average Interpretation:

  • Load < CPU Count: System has spare processing capacity

  • Load = CPU Count: System is optimally utilized

  • Load > CPU Count: System is experiencing processing pressure and potential performance degradation

Breakdown Tab

The Breakdown tab provides detailed JVM memory analysis with granular metrics for each memory pool, enabling precise performance tuning and troubleshooting.

JVM Memory Architecture

Understanding JVM memory organization is essential for effective performance monitoring:

Eden Space

Monitor the primary object allocation area for young generation garbage collection optimization:

Monitoring dashboard for Eden Space

Eden space metrics help you:

  • Optimize object allocation patterns

  • Tune young generation garbage collection frequency

  • Identify excessive short-term object creation

Survivor Space

Track intermediate object storage for garbage collection lifecycle analysis:

Monitoring dashboard for Survivor Space

Survivor space monitoring enables:

  • Analysis of object promotion patterns to old generation

  • Optimization of survivor space sizing for GC efficiency

  • Detection of objects with intermediate lifespans

Old Generation

Monitor long-term object storage and major garbage collection patterns:

Monitoring dashboard for Old Generation

Old generation metrics provide insight into:

  • Long-lived object accumulation patterns

  • Major garbage collection frequency and impact

  • Memory leak detection through trend analysis

Code Cache

Monitor JIT compiler performance and native code storage:

Monitoring dashboard for Code Cache

Code cache metrics help optimize:

  • JIT compilation effectiveness

  • Native code storage allocation

  • Application startup and runtime performance

Compressed Class Space

Track compressed ordinary object pointer (OOP) storage efficiency:

This metric is available only when using JDK 8+.

Monitoring dashboard for Compressed Class Space

Monitor compressed class space for:

  • Memory efficiency of compressed OOPs

  • Class metadata storage optimization

  • JVM memory footprint reduction

Metaspace

Monitor class metadata storage using native memory allocation:

This metric is available only when using JDK 8+.

Monitoring dashboard for Metaspace

Key Considerations:

  • 256 MB metaspace allocation

  • Uses system memory outside JVM heap

  • Grows automatically based on class loading requirements

    Metaspace monitoring helps:

  • Prevent class metadata memory exhaustion

  • Optimize class loading and unloading patterns

  • Manage application deployment in memory-constrained environments

System Performance Metrics

Monitor JVM runtime performance and system behavior through these key performance indicators:

Thread Count

Track JVM thread usage to identify concurrency issues and optimize thread pool configuration:

Monitoring dashboard for Thread Count

Monitor thread count to:

  • Detect thread leaks and excessive thread creation

  • Optimize application concurrency settings

  • Identify potential deadlock conditions

Garbage Collection

Monitor garbage collection efficiency across different heap generations:

Monitoring dashboard for Garbage Collection

Garbage Collection Areas:

  • Young Generation: Collection frequency for short-lived objects in Eden and Survivor spaces

  • Old Generation: Collection patterns for long-lived objects requiring more intensive cleanup

    Use GC metrics to:

  • Optimize heap size allocation between generations

  • Identify memory allocation patterns causing excessive GC pressure

  • Tune garbage collection algorithms for application performance

Class Loading

Track dynamic class loading across all applications in the JVM:

Monitoring dashboard for Class Loading

Monitor class loading to:

  • Identify classloader memory leaks

  • Optimize application startup performance

  • Analyze dynamic code loading patterns

Server Group and Cluster Monitoring Dashboard

Monitor distributed infrastructure performance through aggregated dashboards that provide unified visibility across multiple servers organized in groups or clusters.

Overview

Server group and cluster monitoring enables centralized performance analysis across your distributed hybrid standalone infrastructure, providing:

  • Combined view of CPU, memory, and heap utilization across all servers

  • Side-by-side performance comparison between individual servers

  • Load distribution patterns across server infrastructure

  • Collective resource utilization for infrastructure planning

The group and cluster dashboard displays essential aggregated infrastructure metrics:

  • CPU Usage: Aggregate processing capacity utilization across all servers (percentage)

  • Memory Usage: Combined memory consumption across the infrastructure (MB)

  • Heap Total: Aggregate JVM heap allocation for all servers (MB)

  • Individual Server Breakdown: Per-server performance within the group context

Aggregated metrics appear as unified plot lines representing the collective performance of selected servers.

Access Group and Cluster Dashboards

To monitor aggregated performance metrics for your server infrastructure:

  1. In Runtime Manager, click Servers.

  2. Click the server group or cluster name to display the aggregated dashboard.

  3. Select specific servers from the list to display comparative metrics in the details pane.

Dashboard Navigation

  • Time Range Selection

Monitor performance trends across different time periods:

Monitoring dashboard for a server group or cluster

Choose from available time ranges: * 3 Hours: Real-time infrastructure monitoring * 24 Hours: Recent performance analysis * 7 Days: Weekly infrastructure trends * 2 Weeks: Historical capacity analysis

  • Server-Focused View

Access server-specific performance data within the group context:

Monitoring dashboard for a server group or cluster

From the group dashboard, navigate to individual server dashboards by clicking server names to access detailed performance metrics and troubleshooting information.

Troubleshooting Server Group Monitoring

If monitoring metrics don’t appear immediately after configuring Anypoint Monitoring for servers in a server group, follow this systematic installation process:

  1. In Anypoint Platform go to Runtime Manager > Servers > Add Server to create an Anypoint Runtime Manager token.

  2. Execute the command provided in the Add Server screen.

  3. In Anypoint Platform go to Runtime Manager > Servers > Create Group to create the server group.

  4. Start Mule for all the servers to be added to the server group by using the command ./mule start from the $MULE_HOME/bin directory.

  5. In Anypoint Platform go to Runtime Manager > Servers, click the server group name, and Add Server to add all the servers to the group.

  6. Deploy an API to the server group.

  7. Stop any running filebeat process in all the servers of the server group and run the ./install command from the $MULE_HOME/am/bin directory in all the servers of the server group.

  8. In Anypoint Platform go to Runtime Manager > Servers, click the server group name, and restart all the servers in the server group via Actions > Restart.

  9. Run ./setup from the $MULE_HOME/am/bin for all the servers in the server group.

    If after this step the metrics don’t show up, repeat the last two steps.

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