Solves The Java JMX Problem
There are a few other things that have me excited about sFlow, like the fact that it solves the JVM monitoring problem. Ops folks always want to know how their Tomcat or JBoss servers are running. You can buy fancy tools from Oracle to do this, or you can use the jmx-sflow-agent. Typically, the way we solve this problem is that we either fire up a tool like check_jmx, which basically fires up a JVM each and every time it needs to check a metric *shudder*, or we run a long running java process that we need to constantly update with a list of servers to poll in order to get graphs of our heap sizes.
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