Request Handling Ambiguity
Connector configuration and handler chains make it difficult to confirm how requests were actually processed under live traffic.
Jetty Monitoring
Monitor Jetty performance seamlessly with the Atatus Java agent, offering real-time visibility into your Jetty HTTP server, servlet engine, and JVM performance. Gain deep insights into request handling, transaction flow, and system health to ensure an efficient and high-performing server stack.
Challenges
Where Jetty production visibility breaks
Fragmented Execution Context
Errors surface without complete thread, request, or execution state, forcing engineers to reconstruct runtime conditions manually.
Slow Fault Localization
Determining whether failures originate in handlers, servlets, or downstream services takes longer as execution paths deepen.
Hidden Thread Contention
Thread pool saturation and scheduling delays develop gradually, remaining invisible until latency and error rates spike.
Dependency Timing Gaps
Upstream and downstream dependencies introduce delays that are difficult to correlate with Jetty request handling behavior.
Noisy Failure Signals
Alerts lack execution depth, pushing teams to respond to symptoms rather than the underlying processing breakdown.
Unclear Scale Dynamics
Rising concurrency and connection counts alter runtime behavior in ways teams cannot clearly observe or predict.
Declining Operational Confidence
Repeated blind investigations reduce trust in production understanding, slowing decision-making during high-impact incidents.
Key Features
Complete Performance Visibility for Jetty Applications
Real-time observability for Jetty workloads that helps teams understand request processing, manage concurrency, and optimize server performance in production.
Trace-Level Visibility for Jetty Requests
Track every incoming request across handlers, threads, and backend services to identify processing delays and performance bottlenecks quickly.
Visualize Server Dependencies
See how Jetty connects with databases and APIs using live latency metrics and traffic patterns to optimize system performance.
Monitor High-Traffic Transactions
Identify slow sessions and request spikes that impact server responsiveness and user experience.
Track External Calls
Monitor downstream service latency and failures to maintain application stability and reliability.
Why Atatus
Why Jetty teams standardize on Atatus
As Jetty deployments scale in traffic, concurrency, and ownership, understanding real production behavior becomes harder than operating the infrastructure itself. Teams standardize on Atatus to preserve execution clarity, align engineers around the same runtime reality, and maintain confidence as system complexity grows.
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Clear Execution Flow
Engineers understand how requests move through handlers, threads, and execution stages without reconstructing Jetty internals.
02
Fast Team Alignment
Platform, SRE, and backend teams reach shared production understanding quickly, even during high-severity incidents.
03
Immediate Signal Confidence
Production signals are trusted early in investigations, enabling faster and more decisive response.
04
Lower Debug Overhead
Engineers spend less time correlating logs and thread behavior and more time isolating execution faults.
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Predictable Incident Response
Incident handling follows consistent analytical patterns as traffic volume and system complexity increase.
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Shared Runtime Reality
Teams reference the same execution evidence during outages and post-incident reviews.
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Stable Under Concurrency
Production understanding remains intact as connection counts and parallelism rise.
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Reduced On-Call Fatigue
Clear runtime insight shortens incident duration and reduces escalation loops for on-call engineers.
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Long-Term Operational Trust
Teams continue scaling Jetty-based systems without fear of unseen production behavior.
Teams
Unified Observability for Every Engineering Team
Atatus adapts to how engineering teams work across development, operations, and reliability.
Developers
Debug errors and slow paths with the full context of what happened.
Atatus for developersDevOps
Track deployments and see how each release affects stability.
Atatus for DevOpsRelease engineers
Watch latency and error rates to ship with less production risk.
Atatus for release engineersFAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Pricing, deployment, data and the agent. If something is missing, a person will answer it on a demo call.
Jetty is a lightweight, open-source HTTP server and servlet engine that is designed to provide high-performance and scalable web applications. It is widely used for deploying Java applications and supports various protocols, making it an ideal choice for developers seeking an efficient and flexible server solution.
The Atatus Java agent provides comprehensive monitoring for Jetty servers, offering real-time insights into JVM performance, transaction flows, and server health. It captures critical metrics such as thread pool utilization, session management, and garbage collection activity, enabling you to optimize resource allocation and improve the efficiency of your Jetty-based Java applications.
Key metrics to monitor for Jetty server performance include thread pool utilization, request processing time, queued requests, session management, and garbage collection activity. By monitoring these metrics with the Atatus Java agent, you can ensure your Jetty HTTP server and servlet engine are running efficiently and reliably.
Yes, the Atatus Java agent can monitor transactions on Jetty servers. It provides detailed visibility into transaction performance, including latency, throughput, and error rates, helping you to quickly identify and resolve any transaction-related issues that may impact your Java applications.
Jetty monitoring allows you to track the performance of the servlet engine by measuring request handling efficiency, session creation and expiration, and thread usage. The Atatus Java agent helps you fine-tune the servlet engine, ensuring that it operates smoothly and efficiently under various load conditions.