Monitoring an Application with Spring Insight

Spring Insight is another offering from SpringSource that supports comprehensive monitoring and visualization of Spring-based web applications.

In this section, we will demonstrate using Spring Insight Developer (an edition of Spring Insight targeted for developer use) to monitor the sample web application.

In the following sections, we will discuss the procedure required, including setting up a tc Server instance with Spring Insight enabled and using it to monitor the main aspects of a Spring-based JEE application.

Introducing Spring Insight

Spring Insight provides a number of features. The feature most relevant to application developers is the ability to trace and capture the statistics and performance figures across all layers of a web application. Some of the main information that Spring Insight can help to capture is as follows: