Configuring ActiveMQ
Easily configure and manage your ActiveMQ brokers for enterprise-grade monitoring with Nodinite. This guide walks you through adding, enabling, disabling, and removing brokers, setting queue thresholds, applying RegEx filters, and managing authentication for secure, flexible, and proactive monitoring.
✅ Add, enable, disable, or remove any number of ActiveMQ brokers
✅ Set global and specific queue thresholds for proactive alerting
✅ Apply RegEx-based queue exclusions for fine-grained control
✅ Secure connections with robust authentication options
Info
Before any monitoring and remote configuration can be performed, you must first install the Message Queueing Monitoring Agent and create a Monitoring Agent Configuration. First-time users start here.
From the ActiveMQ tab, you can manage any number of ActiveMQ brokers, each with its own set of properties.
To monitor and control one or more ActiveMQ brokers, provide the required connection details.
Add your first ActiveMQ broker from the ActiveMQ tab.
Configuring the connection
- Add ActiveMQ broker
- Remove ActiveMQ broker ✅ Enable ActiveMQ broker
- Disable ActiveMQ broker
- Manage Queue thresholds
- Global - Use if not overridden by a specific setting
- Specific - Overrides global configuration on named queue
- Apply exclusion filters
- Authentication
Remember to click on the Save button to persist changes. It may take some time (depending on the user-defined synchronization interval) for Nodinite to reflect changes.
Add ActiveMQ broker
Click the Add button to add a new ActiveMQ broker to monitor. Repeat as needed.
Expand the accordion to configure the connection.
Configure the basic connection details for your ActiveMQ broker.
- Enable ActiveMQ monitoring - When checked, this specific ActiveMQ configuration will be monitored
- Configuration name - User-friendly name for this ActiveMQ connection. Also becomes the default Application name for all monitored Resources.
- Description - (optional) User-friendly short description for this configuration.
- Connection String - The connection string used by the Message Queueing Monitoring Agent to connect to the ActiveMQ broker.
Remove ActiveMQ broker
Click the Remove button to remove the configuration for monitoring the ActiveMQ broker and its queue Resources.
Remove an ActiveMQ broker from monitoring.
Instead of removing an ActiveMQ broker, you can simply disable monitoring to keep your configuration for later use.
Enable ActiveMQ broker
A disabled Monitoring Configuration is clearly marked with a ban sign. Only disabled brokers can be Enabled.
Disabled ActiveMQ broker is marked with a ban sign.
Click the checkbox to re-enable monitoring of ActiveMQ broker related Resources.
Monitoring is enabled when the checkbox is checked.
Disable ActiveMQ broker
You can stop monitoring the ActiveMQ broker without removing the configuration by disabling the selected configuration. An enabled Monitoring Configuration does not have the ban sign. Only enabled ActiveMQ brokers can be Disabled.
Enabled ActiveMQ brokers do not have a ban sign.
Un-check the checkbox to disable monitoring of ActiveMQ broker related Resources.
Manage Queue thresholds
Queue settings are either global or overridden with specific settings.
Global Settings
Global settings are used for evaluations of the queues if not specific settings have been set.
- Queue thresholds:
- Number-based evaluation
- Warning Count - 0 means do not evaluate
- Error Count - 0 means do not evaluate
- Time-based evaluation
- Warning Time Span - Timespan format (days.hours:minutes:seconds)
- Error Time Span - Timespan format (days.hours:minutes:seconds)
- Number-based evaluation
- Queue exclusions filter
Configure queue thresholds and exclusions in the Queues tab.
Number-based evaluation
If you select the Fixed option for Count Evaluation Type, monitoring is based on the number of messages in the queue.
0 means do not evaluate
| State | Name | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warning Count | integer | The number of messages to go above on the queue to trigger Warning alert | |
| Error Count | integer | The number of messages to go above on the queue to trigger Error alert |
Time-based evaluation
Time-based evaluation is always evaluated. If you do not want to perform evaluation based on time, simply provide long enough thresholds.
Timespan format (days.hours:minutes:seconds)
| State | Name | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warning TimeSpan | Timespan 00:05:00 (5 minutes) | The age of first message on the queue to trigger Warning alert | |
| Error TimeSpan | Timespan 01:10:00 (1 hour 10 minutes) | The age of first message on the queue to trigger Error alert |
Queue exclusions filter
Resources can be excluded using a RegEx based filter. You can Add and Remove as many RegEx expressions as you like.
Example #1: Remove all queues that start with the letter '_'
^[_].*
Example: Remove all queues starting with the letter '_'
You can also use the filter to remove everything that does not match your provided RegEx expression, like
^((?!ONLYLIKEMYNAME).)*$
Whenever you apply one or more filters, the configuration accordion will display a filter icon to indicate exclusions are in use.
Filter icon appears when exclusions are configured.
Important
We have had many support incidents with reports of missing queues due to this functionality. If you miss a queue in your Monitor Views, first check your filters. Remember: With great power comes great responsibility.
Specific queue settings
You can provide specific thresholds for named queues.
Warning
If the actual queue is removed or changes its name, you must reconfigure the specific configuration within Nodinite
From within the Specific queue settings section, click the Add button to add a specific configuration.
Add a specific configuration for a named queue.
Next, expand the accordion.
Expand to configure thresholds for a specific queue.
- Queue name - (mandatory) The exact name of the queue to configure
- Description - (optional) User-friendly short description for this configuration.
All other threshold settings are already documented in the global section.
Specific configurations using Remote Actions are further detailed in the Managing ActiveMQ user guide.
Configure Authentication
- Use Authentication - When checked, this connection is authenticated using the provided credentials.
- User name - The name of the 'User' account with proper access rights
- Password - The password for the user
Configure authentication for secure connections.
Next Step
Related Topics
Add or manage a Monitoring Agent Configuration
Install Message Queueing Monitoring Agent