Sunday, July 25, 2021

Liferay Portal Monitoring with Prometheus

Prometheus is popular opensource monitoring tool. It can monitor applications with help of JMX Exporter Java agent.


This Article demonstrate the Liferay Portal Server Monitoring with Prometheus.



Prerequisite


Install Liferay Cluster

 


http://www.liferaysavvy.com/2021/07/liferay-portal-apache-webserver.html

 



  • Download JMX Exporter
  • Configure JMX Exporter for Liferay Portal Servers
  • Start Liferay Portal with JMX Exporter Agent
  • Install Prometheus
  • Configure Prometheus scrape for Liferay Portal Servers
  • Verify Liferay Cluster in Prometheus

 


 

Download JMX Exporter



Download JMX Exporter jar file from following location.


https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/prometheus/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent/0.16.1/



Direct link for latest JMX Exporter JAR


https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/prometheus/jmx/jmx_prometheus_javaagent/0.16.1/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.16.1.jar

 

OR


https://github.com/LiferaySavvy/liferay-monitoring-prometheus/raw/master/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.16.1.jar


 

Download and get the jar to local directory.

 




 



Configure JMX Exporter for Liferay Portal Server



We need to configure the exporter configuration for Liferay Portal Server such a way JMX agent exports the required metrics from Liferay Portal Server.


Get the following JMX Exporter configuration file from below location and place it in local drive.



https://github.com/prometheus/jmx_exporter/blob/master/example_configs/tomcat.yml

 

OR


https://github.com/LiferaySavvy/liferay-monitoring-prometheus/blob/master/tomcat.yml

 


We can use below one too.



 

 

lowercaseOutputLabelNames: true

lowercaseOutputName: true

rules:

- pattern: 'Catalina<type=GlobalRequestProcessor, name=\"(\w+-\w+)-(\d+)\"><>(\w+):'

  name: tomcat_$3_total

  labels:

    port: "$2"

    protocol: "$1"

  help: Tomcat global $3

  type: COUNTER

- pattern: 'Catalina<j2eeType=Servlet, WebModule=//([-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:.,;]*[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]), name=([-a-zA-Z0-9+/$%~_-|!.]*), J2EEApplication=none, J2EEServer=none><>(requestCount|maxTime|processingTime|errorCount):'

  name: tomcat_servlet_$3_total

  labels:

    module: "$1"

    servlet: "$2"

  help: Tomcat servlet $3 total

  type: COUNTER

- pattern: 'Catalina<type=ThreadPool, name="(\w+-\w+)-(\d+)"><>(currentThreadCount|currentThreadsBusy|keepAliveCount|pollerThreadCount|connectionCount):'

  name: tomcat_threadpool_$3

  labels:

    port: "$2"

    protocol: "$1"

  help: Tomcat threadpool $3

  type: GAUGE

- pattern: 'Catalina<type=Manager, host=([-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:.,;]*[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]), context=([-a-zA-Z0-9+/$%~_-|!.]*)><>(processingTime|sessionCounter|rejectedSessions|expiredSessions):'

  name: tomcat_session_$3_total

  labels:

    context: "$2"

    host: "$1"

  help: Tomcat session $3 total

  type: COUNTER

 

 




 



Start Liferay Portal with JMX Exporter Agent



It’s required to start JMX Exporter agent with Liferay Portal. Set JMX Exporter java agent in JAVA_OPTS in setenv.bat file of Liferay Portal.


JAVA agent syntax


 

-javaagent:C:/kafka-workspace/kafka-monitoring/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.15.0.jar=<port>:<exporter-config-file-path>

 



Set JAVA_OPTS in Liferay setenv.bat file. Locate to tomcat bin directory and update setenv.bat file with following JAVA_OPTS. This need to be update in All Liferay Portal Servers in the cluster.


 

Liferay Portal Node1


https://github.com/LiferaySavvy/liferay-monitoring-prometheus/blob/master/setenv-node1.bat

 


 

set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -javaagent:C:/kafka-workspace/kafka-monitoring/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.16.1.jar=7171:C:/kafka-workspace/kafka-monitoring/tomcat.yml"

 

 

 



 

Liferay Portal Node2



https://github.com/LiferaySavvy/liferay-monitoring-prometheus/blob/master/setenv-node2.bat

 

 

 

set "JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -javaagent:C:/kafka-workspace/kafka-monitoring/jmx_prometheus_javaagent-0.16.1.jar=7272:C:/kafka-workspace/kafka-monitoring/tomcat.yml"

 

 






Start Liferay Node1



Open command prompt and locate Liferay Portal Tomcat bin directory and use following commands.



 

cd C:\Liferay\Liferay74\liferay-ce-portal-7.4.1-ga2-node1\tomcat-9.0.43\bin

startup.bat

 

 






Start Liferay Node2


Open command prompt and locate Liferay Portal Tomcat bin directory and use following commands.

 


 

cd C:\Liferay\Liferay74\liferay-ce-portal-7.4.1-ga2-node2\tomcat-9.0.43\bin

startup.bat

 

 

 





Now Liferay Portal servers started with JMX Exporter agent.


 

Make sure all JMX Exporter are started successfully and we can access metrics with following URL’s. We are running all java agents in same machine, its required to change ports accordingly.

 


 

 http://localhost:7171/metrics

 

http://localhost:7272/metrics

 

 




 


Install Prometheus

 


Follow the below URL and Install Prometheus.


http://www.liferaysavvy.com/2021/07/prometheus-installation-on-windows.html

 



Configure Prometheus scrape for Liferay Portal Servers

 


Locate to Prometheus directory and update “prometheus.yml” file with following Liferay Portal Server scrape.

 

Find the file from following location


https://github.com/LiferaySavvy/liferay-monitoring-prometheus/blob/master/prometheus.yml

 

 


  

- job_name: 'liferay'

    static_configs:

    - targets: ['localhost:7171','localhost:7272']

      labels:

          env: "liferay-dev"

 

Targets should be JMX Exporter java agent host:port.

 



Complete “prometheus.yml” file

 



# my global config

global:

  scrape_interval:     15s # Set the scrape interval to every 15 seconds. Default is every 1 minute.

  evaluation_interval: 15s # Evaluate rules every 15 seconds. The default is every 1 minute.

  # scrape_timeout is set to the global default (10s).

 

# Alertmanager configuration

alerting:

  alertmanagers:

  - static_configs:

    - targets:

      # - alertmanager:9093

 

# Load rules once and periodically evaluate them according to the global 'evaluation_interval'.

rule_files:

  # - "first_rules.yml"

  # - "second_rules.yml"

 

# A scrape configuration containing exactly one endpoint to scrape:

# Here it's Prometheus itself.

scrape_configs:

  # The job name is added as a label `job=<job_name>` to any timeseries scraped from this config.

  - job_name: 'prometheus'

 

    # metrics_path defaults to '/metrics'

    # scheme defaults to 'http'.

 

    static_configs:

    - targets: ['localhost:9090']

   

  - job_name: 'liferay'

    static_configs:

    - targets: ['localhost:7171','localhost:7272']

      labels:

          env: "liferay-dev"

         

                    

         

 

Start “Prometheus”



Open command prompt and locate to “Prometheus” root directory. Use the following start command and pass web listen address and config file as options.



 

prometheus.exe --config.file prometheus.yml --web.listen-address ":9090" --storage.tsdb.path "data"

 

 

 



Verify Liferay Cluster in Prometheus



Access “Prometheus” web interface with following URL and its running on 9090 port.

 


 

http://localhost:9090/

 

 

 



Targets Status



Go to Status menu and click on targets so we can see Liferay cluster health for each Node.





 

We can see Liferay Portal Cluster health in the Prometheus.

 


 

http://localhost:9090/targets

 

 

 

 

 





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