11.3. JMX Connector

The JMX connector provides the ability to query JMX information from all nodes in a Presto cluster. This is very useful for monitoring or debugging. Java Management Extensions (JMX) provides information about the Java Virtual Machine and all of the software running inside it. Presto itself is heavily instrumented via JMX.

This connector can also be configured so that chosen JMX information will be periodically dumped and stored in memory for later access.

Configuration

To configure the JMX connector, create a catalog properties file /etc/presto/catalog/jmx.properties with the following contents:

connector.name=jmx

To enable periodical dumps, define following properties:

jmx.dump-tables=java.lang:type=Runtime,com.facebook.presto.execution.scheduler:name=NodeScheduler
jmx.dump-period=10s
jmx.eviction-limit=86400

dump-tables is a comma separated list of Managed Beans (MBean) that will be dumped every dump-period milliseconds. Dump will be with limited size of eviction-limit number of entries per each MBean. Both dump-period and eviction-limit have default values of 10s and 86400 accordingly.

Querying JMX

The JMX connector provides two schemas.

First one is jmx that contains every MBean from every node in the Presto cluster. You can see all of the available MBeans by running SHOW TABLES:

SHOW TABLES FROM jmx.jmx;

MBean names map to non-standard table names and must be quoted with double quotes when referencing them in a query. For example, the following query shows the JVM version of every node:

SELECT node, vmname, vmversion
FROM jmx.jmx."java.lang:type=runtime";

                 node                 |              vmname               | vmversion
--------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------
 ddc4df17-0b8e-4843-bb14-1b8af1a7451a | Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM | 24.60-b09
(1 row)

The following query shows the open and maximum file descriptor counts for each node:

SELECT openfiledescriptorcount, maxfiledescriptorcount
FROM jmx.jmx."java.lang:type=operatingsystem";

 openfiledescriptorcount | maxfiledescriptorcount
-------------------------+------------------------
                     329 |                  10240
(1 row)

Second schema is called history and contains dumped tables as configured in jmx.properties. It contains dump-tables with the exactly same columns as original tables in jmx schema, but with added timestamp column, which holds value of timestamp when the given row was dumped:

SELECT "timestamp", "uptime" FROM jmx.history."java.lang:type=runtime";

        timestamp        | uptime
-------------------------+--------
 2016-01-28 10:18:50.000 |  11420
 2016-01-28 10:19:00.000 |  21422
 2016-01-28 10:19:10.000 |  31412
(3 rows)

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