Weblogic Monitoring

Use operating-system-specific monitoring tools to observe thread activity and context switching. For example, on Solaris, you can use mpstat, prstat, top to monitor CPU utilization. mpstat exposes CPU utilization, thread interrupts, and voluntary and involuntary context switches. top will help you to find the processes that are using up the CPU.

WebLogic administration console can be used for monitoring running servers, server threads, JVM heap usage, log files, clusters statistics etc. Enabling SNMP monitoring can leverage the existing SNMP monitoring framework, to monitor your WebLogic domain resources through the central admin server.

Section 1.01: Third-party monitoring tools can also be used to monitor application, system resources used by WebLogic Server (Ex. spotlight from Quest, Acsera from Acsera Corporation etc.).

Tips

• An SNMP agent is an integral part of the admin server in a domain, so admin-server instance failure can become a bottleneck.
  
• To monitor WebLogic runtime MBeans, you can use JMX monitoring tools, in addition to the admin console.