I'm looking for a (probably) desktop application to monitor applications through JMX in real-time. The application must provide the capability to design a dashboard with charts and gauges with values coming from several JMX queries. I must be able to set thresholds to some values and be alerted with sounds if the value goes beyond the threshold.

The application will be always running on a big monitor in our operation room.

Traditional monitoring application like Nagios, Hyperic and others does not fit well in my "real-time" requirement. They are also excelent at maintaining the history of monitoring or at alerts, but lack a good and fast GUI.

My budget is $200, but free and opensource are always preferred. I do have some time to customize it.

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There are plenty of JMX tools that can do what you want.

Do you have a budget in mind? Does it have to be free? Cheap? Enterprise? ITRS/BMC/HPOV are all larger, expensive solutions.

How much effort are you going to be putting in to customise it? Nagios/Zenoss/etc are free, but easily extensible.

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Oh and Hyperic is both OpenSource and Enterprise available, and targeted at JMX monitoring. – Alex Dec 21 '09 at 18:50
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Zenoss Core has a ZenPack for monitoring JMX: http://community.zenoss.org/docs/DOC-4027 Open Source and free, the JMX ZenPack is used by lots of users and customers on some really big apps.

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I'll build a list of packages I find:

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Try MC4J, is free too

http://mc4j.org/confluence/display/mc4j/Home

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I tried, but I may be stupid because I didn't manage to run it. I think the installation on my Win2008 box failed somehow and I cannot find a way to run it... – tuler Dec 28 '09 at 12:35
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Try the best solution in monitoring software: Nagios.

There are several JMX plugins on the net: nagios jmx.

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