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Monitoring and loading tools for testing Apache Tomcat

The following monitoring and loading tools can be used to test Apache Tomcat and are all Open Source. This comparative summary includes a link to more details of each of these resources.

ab - ApacheBench. Part of the standard Apache httpd download - a good but basic soak test where you can see how your servers respond to traffic of a particular type from a single source. Good for looking at 'denial of service' type attacks; too basic for typical loading tests.

Example run from command line
ab -n 2000 -c 30 http://192.168.200.215:8080/whm_course/demo.jsp

That's calling for a page to be loaded 2,000 times - with a concurrency of 30 (in other words for there to be 30 connections all at the same time, simulating visits from 30 different places.

jmeter. Open source, part of Apache jakarka. You set up a number (minimum one) of testing machines to generate traffic to the server. You then run a GUI tool on one of the testing machines to gather in the results and process them - into graphic, text report or log forms.

Jmeter allow much more realistic traffic simulation than ab, but is much more complex to set up - people struggle at their first use. We have a sample first demonstration on our web site at:
http://www.wellho.net/mouth/2082_Jmeter-a-first-test-case.html

jconsole. A way of looking inside the jvm and seeing resource use, splitting the heap down to the various generations if need be. Unlike jmeter and ab, this is not a load tester - it adds no load; rather it is a tool for examining a running system.

Example:
http://www.wellho.net/mouth/2080_Using-ApacheBench-and-jconsole-to-test-and-monitor-Tomcat.html

Tomcat Manager. By providing a "manager" role in Tomcat, you can enable the manager, allowing the control of individual web applications (stop, start, etc) rather than having to stop and start all web applications on the same tomcat instance at the same time.

Sample file:
http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=a652/tomcat-users.course.xml

It is also possible to control the logins to the manager using accounts held in databases - there is a sample in the shipped server.xml file.

The Tomcat Manager is listed in this section because it also provides management information with regards to the internal operations of Tomcat and the jvm.
(written 2009-07-07)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
A901 - Replaced Page
  [1370] Apache Tomcat Performance Tuning - (2007-09-29)
  [1718] Increasing Java Virtual Machine memory for Tomcat - (2008-07-24)
  [2079] Java - Memory Allocation and garbage collection - (2009-03-14)

A692 - Web Application Deployment - Monitoring and load testing your server
  [2080] Using ApacheBench and jconsole to test and monitor Tomcat - (2009-03-14)
  [2082] Jmeter - a first test case - (2009-03-14)
  [3015] Logging the performance of the Apache httpd web server - (2010-10-25)
  [3019] Apache httpd Server Status - monitoring your server - (2010-10-28)
  [3027] Server logs - drawing a graph of gathered data - (2010-11-03)

A656 - Web Application Deployment - More Tomcat Configuration
  [282] Short weekend - (2005-04-17)
  [466] Separating 'per instance' data from binaries and web sites - (2005-10-16)
  [1899] Virtual Hosting under Tomcat - an example - (2008-11-22)
  [3018] Tuning Apache httpd and Tomcat to work well together - (2010-10-27)

A603 - Web Application Deployment - Further httpd Configuration
  [345] Spotting a denial of service attack - (2005-06-12)
  [526] Apache httpd - serving web documents from different directories - (2005-12-12)
  [550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure - (2006-01-01)
  [631] Apache httpd to Tomcat - jk v proxy - (2006-03-03)
  [649] Denial of Service ''attack'' - (2006-03-17)
  [662] An unhelpful error message from Apache httpd - (2006-03-30)
  [755] Using different URLs to navigate around a single script - (2006-06-11)
  [853] To list a directory under httpd on a web server, or not? - (2006-09-02)
  [934] Clustering, load balancing, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy - (2006-11-21)
  [1009] Passing GET parameters through Apache mod_rewrite - (2006-12-27)
  [1080] httpd.conf or .htaccess? - (2007-02-14)
  [1121] Sharing the load with Apache httpd and perhaps Tomcat - (2007-03-29)
  [1207] Simple but effective use of mod_rewrite (Apache httpd) - (2007-05-27)
  [1351] Compressing web pages sent out from server. Is it worth it? - (2007-09-14)
  [1355] .php or .html extension? Morally Static Pages - (2007-09-17)
  [1377] Load Balancing with Apache mod_jk (httpd/Tomcat) - (2007-10-02)
  [1381] Using a MySQL database to control mod_rewrite via PHP - (2007-10-06)
  [1551] Which modules are loaded in my Apache httpd - (2008-02-23)
  [1554] Online hotel reservations - Melksham, Wiltshire (near Bath) - (2008-02-24)
  [1564] Default file (MiMe types) for Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat - (2008-03-04)
  [1566] Strange behaviour of web directory requests without a trailing slash - (2008-03-06)
  [1619] User and Group settings for Apache httpd web server - (2008-04-22)
  [1636] What to do if the Home Page is missing - (2008-05-08)
  [1707] Configuring Apache httpd - (2008-07-12)
  [1762] WEB-INF (Tomcat) and .htaccess (httpd) - (2008-08-20)
  [1767] mod_proxy and mod_proxy_ajp - httpd - (2008-08-22)
  [1778] Pointing all the web pages in a directory at a database - (2008-08-30)
  [1939] mod_proxy_ajp and mod_proxy_balancer examples - (2008-12-13)
  [1954] mod_rewrite for newcomers - (2008-12-20)
  [1955] How to avoid duplicating web page maintainance - (2008-12-20)
  [1974] Moving a directory on your web site - (2009-01-03)
  [2060] Database connection Pooling, SSL, and command line deployment - httpd and Tomcat - (2009-03-01)
  [2478] How did I do THAT? - (2009-10-26)
  [2900] Redirecting a page - silent, temporary or permanent? - (2010-08-03)
  [3133] An image from a website that occasionally comes out as hyroglyphics - (2011-01-14)
  [3449] Apache Internal Dummy Connection - what is it and what should I do with it? - (2011-09-19)
  [3635] Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING on brand new web site - why? - (2012-03-03)
  [3862] Forwarding a whole domain, except for a few directories - Apache http server - (2012-09-17)
  [3955] Building up from a small PHP setup to an enterprise one - (2012-12-16)
  [4001] Helping search engines with appropriate 400 error codes - (2013-02-11)
  [4307] Identifying and clearing denial of service attacks on your Apache server - (2014-09-27)


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