You can query a running Forge component for performance metrics using the Forge Metrics Web service. This makes Forge easier to integrate into your management and monitoring framework.
About the Forge Metrics Web service
The Forge Metrics Web service provides progress and performance metrics for Forge. You can use the output of this Web service in the monitoring tool or interface of your choice.
About enabling Forge metrics
Before you can generate Forge metrics, you have tell Forge the port on which to set up the Forge Metrics Web service. By doing so, you also turn Forge metrics on.
About using Forge metrics
Assuming Forge’s web-service-port is set, when you start Forge, it serves up the Metrics Web service. You can then use any Web services interface to talk to it and request metrics.
The MetricsService API
The MetricsService interface includes the methods and classes described below.