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Full Stack Java Performance Monitoring

Get end-to-end visibility into your Java performance with application monitoring tools. Gain insightful metrics on performance bottlenecks with Java monitoring to optimize your application.

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1. Download the latest Java agent from

wget  https://atatus-artifacts.s3.amazonaws.com/atatus-java/downloads/latest/atatus-java-agent.jar

2. Enable the javaagent and set license key and app name in your java options

java-javaagent:/path/to/atatus-java-agent.jar  \

    -Datatus.license_key="APM_LIC_KEY"  \

    -Datatus.app_name="YOUR_APP_NAME"  \

    -jar my-java-application.jar

3. Restart your server

1. Download the latest Java agent from

wget  https://atatus-artifacts.s3.amazonaws.com/atatus-java/downloads/latest/atatus-java-agent.jar

2. Enable the javaagent and set license key and app name in your java options

  Create or modify the bin/setenv.sh file, make sure that the file is executable.

touch bin/setenv.sh
chmod +x bin/setenv.sh

  Set your license key and app name in the setenv.sh file.

export  CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -javaagent:/path/to/atatus-java-agent.jar"
export  CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Datatus.license_key=\"APM_LIC_KEY\""
export  CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Datatus.app_name=\"YOUR_APP_NAME\""

  Optional - Set your application package path in the setenv.sh file to find exact source line in Java Exceptions.

export  CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Datatus.application_packages=\"YOUR_PACKAGE_PATH\""

3. Stop and Restart your Tomcat server.

1. Download the latest Java agent from

wget  https://atatus-artifacts.s3.amazonaws.com/atatus-java/downloads/latest/atatus-java-agent.jar

2. Enable the javaagent and set license key and app name in your java options

  Set your license key and app name in the standalone.conf file.

export  JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -javaagent:/path/to/atatus-java-agent.jar"
export  JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Datatus.license_key=\"APM_LIC_KEY\""
export  JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Datatus.app_name=\"YOUR_APP_NAME\""

  Optional - Set your application package path in the standalone.conf file to find exact source line in Java Exceptions.

export  JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Datatus.application_packages=\"YOUR_PACKAGE_PATH\""

3. Stop and Restart your Wildfly / JBoss server.

1. Download the latest Java agent from

wget  https://atatus-artifacts.s3.amazonaws.com/atatus-java/downloads/latest/atatus-java-agent.jar

2. Enable the javaagent and set license key and app name in your java options

  Set your license key and app name in the jvm.options file.

     -javaagent:/path/to/atatus-java-agent.jar

    -Datatus.license_key="APM_LIC_KEY"

    -Datatus.app_name="YOUR_APP_NAME"

  Optional - Set your application package path in the jvm.options file to find exact source line in Java Exceptions.

-Datatus.application_packages="YOUR_PACKAGE_PATH"

3. Stop and Restart your server.

1. Go to your Java app directory and set your license key and app name to heroku config

heroku config:set  ATATUS_APP_NAME="Java New App"
heroku config:set  ATATUS_LICENSE_KEY="APM_LIC_KEY"

2. Download the latest Java agent from

wget  https://atatus-artifacts.s3.amazonaws.com/atatus-java/downloads/latest/atatus-java-agent.jar

3. Create a Procfilein your root directory and add the following line. Configure add-ons

web: java -javaagent:/app/atatus-java-agent.jar -jar my-app.jar

4. Run the following commands to commit and push the 'atatus-java-agent.jar' file into Heroku

git add atatus-java-agent.jar
git commit -m  "Added Atatus Agent"
git push heroku master
heroku logs --tail

5. Stop and Restart your server.

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Auto Instrumentation

Utilize industry-leading integrations with libraries and frameworks for in-depth invisibility into Java, PHP, Node.js, Ruby, Python, Go, .NET applications.

Real-time observability

Real-time observability

See data from multiple apps in real time and visualize critical information including transaction performance, error rate, database performance, network calls and more.

Resolve issues quickly

Resolve issues quickly

Quickly identify error and Java performance issues and fix them by using the context, environment, and more before it affects your customers.

Unlimited applications

Unlimited applications

Track all your Java application workflow in one place. Add your production, dev, staging, QA to monitor your applications through the complete software development cycle.

Custom Queries

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Get your questions answered. Use custom queries to slice and dice the data by transaction, URL, error, user, browser, host OS and more using Java performance monitoring.

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Designed by developers, for developers and managers to determine when and where your attention is required and enable teams to ship more and fix less.

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Setup alerts to automatically monitor your applications for increase in response time, API failures, error rate and much more. Get notified through various channels, including Slack, Teams, Email, PagerDuty and more.

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Easily compare one time range to another and so on, and identify changes in app behavior and stability with respect to the app releases.

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Don't miss out on your Java application performance and error stats. Atatus can send you weekly and monthly summaries directly to your inbox.

FAQ on Java Application Performance Monitoring

What is Java performance monitoring?

The Java performance monitoring tool helps developers to optimize the Java server performance.

A good Java APM solution answers the following two questions:

  1. Is an application broken or slow?
  2. What is issue that's causing the application broken or slow?

You can easily use application performance monitoring tools to answer, detect and resolve the above issues before they could impact the end users.

How to monitor a Java app?

In general, there are two types of monitoring:

  1. Black-box monitoring - It allows you can monitor the external behaviour of your system such as CPU usage, disk usage, memory usage, load averages etc..
  2. White-box monitoring - It allows you to keep an eye on the applications running on your server. It requires an agent to enable white-box monitoring.
Why do we need an Java performance monitoring tool?

Every organization should have a well-implemented Java APM solution, which allows DevOps teams (and the organization as a whole) to resolve issues and performance bottlenecks efficiently and reduce Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR). This has a substantial impact on the bottom line of the business.

Now organizations do not have to deal with the unnecessary work involved in maintaining an extensive software analysis group.

How to choose the right application performance monitoring tool?

Your Java performance monitoring tools should be easy to use, offer actionable insights, and be able to:

  1. Manage applications in the language(s) your apps use
  2. Track performance at the code level
  3. Keep an eye on end-user experiences
  4. Make use of artificial intelligence
  5. The ability to monitor the entire infrastructure
  6. Provides information that connects app performance metrics to business outcomes.

Check out this blog to know more information - Things You Should Know Before Choosing Application Performance Monitoring Tools.

What are the benefits of Java APM?

Technical Benefits:

  1. Increase application uptime and reduces downtime
  2. Code level diagnostics
  3. Avoid network outages
  4. Reduces MTTR
  5. Server metrics
  6. Alerts and notification on error information

Business Benefits:

  1. Higher conversion rate
  2. Improves SEO
  3. Better end-user experience
  4. Improves productivity
  5. Reduced operational costs
How to manage database performance issues in a Java application?

With the help of the database monitoring, you can easily identify the database performance bottlenecks.

  1. Understand who's using your databases.
  2. Track key performance metrics for DB performance tuning.
  3. Detect the slow and most-time consuming SQL queries to optimize it.
  4. Alerts on availability and performance issues.

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