Jetty/Tutorial/Statistics

Introduction

Jetty allows collecting several types of statistics. This tutorial shows how to configure Jetty to enable collecting statistics, although it is not recommended and it is best to use a JMX agent to select statistics only when needed.

Details

Connector statistics

The following example shows how to turn on connector statistics in jetty.xml.

<Item>
  <New class="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector">
    <Set name="port">8080</Set>
    <Set name="maxIdleTime">30000</Set>
    <Set name="lowResourceMaxIdleTime">3000</Set>
    <Set name="Acceptors">1</Set>
    <Set name="StatsOn">true</Set>
  </New>
</Item>

Request Statistics

To collect request statistics a StatisticsHandler must be configured as one of the handlers of the server. Typically this can be done as the top level handler, but you may choose to configure a statistics handler for just one context by creating a context configuration file. The following jetty.xml fragment shows how to configure a top level statistics handler:

<!-- =========================================================== -->
<!-- Set handler Collection Structure                            -->
<!-- =========================================================== -->
<Set name="handler">
  <New class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.StatisticsHandler">
    <Set name="handler">
      <New id="handlers" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection">
        <Set name="handlers">
         <Array type="org.mortbay.jetty.Handler">
           <Item><New id="contexts" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection"/></Item>
           <Item><New id="defaultHandler" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.DefaultHandler"/></Item>
           <Item><New id="requestLog" class="org.mortbay.jetty.handler.RequestLogHandler"/></Item>
         </Array>
        </Set>
      </New>
    </Set>
  </New>
</Set>

Session Statistics

Session statistics are enabled by default and do not need to be configured.

Additional Resources

See Jetty JMX tutorial for instructions on how to configure Jetty JMX integration.