How to View Tomcat's Connector Attributes in the Java Buildpack

Products

• VMware Tanzu Platform - Cloud Foundry

Issue/Introduction

Monitoring the connector will help you determine tomcat container's performance and will help you tune your tomcat container.

This article provides the procedure for checking the values of Tomcat's connector attributes i.e. thread counts, timeouts, etc via JMX.

Resolution

Listed below are the steps to follow to be able to view Tomcat's connector attributes:
 

1. Follow the procedure here to enable application's JMX 
2. Once you are able to run and access jconsole. Go to MBeans Tab -> Catalina -> ThreadPool -> Select connector. A table with a list of connector attributes and its corresponding values will be shown.  

 

Additional Information

• Tuning Tomcat
• How to customize Java build packs Tomcat's server.xml