Installing AppDynamics Prevents Plugins from Loading

[JasonT]

We have installed the application agent for AppDynamics and modified setenv.sh to initiate it. AppDynamics seems to load fine, but then JIRA's plugins timeout and the entire application fails to load:

2014-06-03 13:48:50,188 localhost-startStop-1 INFO [atlassian.plugin.util.WaitUntil] Plugins that have yet to be enabled: [com.onresolve.jira.groovy.groovyrunner...

...

2014-06-03 13:48:54,376 localhost-startStop-1 INFO [atlassian.jira.startup.DefaultJiraLauncher] Stopping launchers

2014-06-03 13:48:54,393 localhost-startStop-1 INFO [atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager] Shutting down the plugin system

We have checked memory, CPU, disk, port conflicts, and permGen memory (per https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/JIRA+System+Plugin+Timeout+While+Waiting+for+Plugins+to+Enable). Removing the AppDynamics JAVA_OPTS from setenv.sh allow JIRA to load properly. The problem is obviously related to AppDynamics, but we aren't sure exactly what the conflict is.

Has anybody run into problems like this installing AppDynamics for JIRA?

Thanks,

Jason

[Pranta Das · Accepted solution]

Confluence and JIRA use the Felix OSGi container. By default, OSGi containers follow a specific model for bootstrap class delegation. Classes that are not specified in the container's CLASSPATH are not delegated to the bootstrap classloader; therefore you must configure the OSGi containers for the App Server Agent classes. The following link shows you how to configure AppDynamics for Felix environments:

http://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO14S/OSGi+Infrastructure+Configuration#OSGiInfrastructureConfiguration-ToconfigureFelixforJiraorConfluence

[JasonT]

Thanks, I will give that a try and let you know.

[JasonT]

Thanks again, adding the following, as you referenced, seems to have done the trick:

-Datlassian.org.osgi.framework.bootdelegation=META-INF.services,com.yourkit,com.singularity.*,com.jprofiler,com.jprofiler.*,org.apache.xerces,org.apache.xerces.*,org.apache.xalan,org.apache.xalan.*,sun.*,com.sun.jndi,com.icl.saxon,com.icl.saxon.*,javax.servlet,javax.servlet.*,com.sun.xml.bind.*

[JasonT]

I should also note that we increased -Datlassian.plugins.enable.wait to 300 seconds, but plugins were still unable to start.

Thanks