Can I use javaMelody in Stash ?

[Flavio Beck]

I have Javameldy installed for JIRA and Confleunce. It is working fine!

Should be possible to install it in STASH as well ?

is there some install guide?

[Johannes Kilian]

Short answer: yes you can.

What I did: (found in some tutorials)

• copied the following files to %STASH_HOME%\atlassian-stash\WEB-INF\lib\:
  
  • itext-2.1.7.jar (for creating PDF-reports)
  • javamelody.jar
  • jrobin-1.5.9.1.jar
• added the following to file %STASH_HOME%\atlassian-stash\WEB-INF\web.xml
  

<webapp>

       ....

        <filter>

            <filter-name>monitoring</filter-name>

            <filter-class>net.bull.javamelody.MonitoringFilter</filter-class>

        </filter>

        <filter-mapping>

            <filter-name>monitoring</filter-name>

            <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>

        </filter-mapping>

        <listener>

            <listener-class>net.bull.javamelody.SessionListener</listener-class>

        </listener>

</weppapp>

• Restarted STASH

Thats's it - at least this works for me 

Hope that helps

[Flavio Beck]

I will test this solution, and add an update here next week! Thank you,

[binary]

First of all thank you very much :) . you saved big amount of time for me. I am already using Java-melody with Bamboo. for bamboo I was using only javamelody.jar file, and it was working fine. When I tried to follow same steps for Stash, it didn't work. I just updated web.xml file in addition to javamelody.jar file and it is working for Stash too. I think you don't need itext jar file. I can see PDF output without using that.

[Jim Bethancourt]

Be careful with this approach.  It caused connectivity issues for us and we weren't able to create new repository definitions in Bamboo among other issues.  Test, test, test in a sandbox environment if at all possible.

[Johannes Kilian]

@Jim Bethancourt: We use this approach for a long time now - and we have not seen any issues yet. But we just useBitbucket and JIRA - no Bamboo, though....

[Azfar_Masut]

In 5.3.x, there are no longer web.xml exist. Anyone have a solution on how to add the properties value?

Thanks in advance!

[Douglas Gnoato]

Disclaimer

The implementation of the Java Melody into Bitbucket is considered a customization. Customizations are out of our support scope as can seen in our Atlassian Support Offerings. Atlassian does not provide support for this integration or any other 3rd-party monitoring integration.

Yes, it possible to integrate Java Melody with Bitbucket 5.X. The process is a bit different from the previous versions and worked on our tests. Below are all the details.

1.  Download (we used wget) the JavaMelody add on to the $BITBUCKET_HOME/shared/plugins/installed-plugins/. Note: This is the one from the marketplace listing JavaMelody Monitoring plugin, which appears to be non-compatible with Bitbucket Server (but it worked on our tests).

wget https://github.com/javamelody/jira-confluence-javamelody/releases/download/1.69.0/jira-confluence-javamelody-1.69.0.jar

      2.  Stop Bitbucket's service
      3.  Add the following to the bitbucket.properties file:

# Enable JavaMelody auto-configuration (optional, default: true)
javamelody.enabled=true
# Disable monitoring of Spring services and controllers (optional, default: true) - this is not allowed by Bitbucket Server itself and it would not have any effect if set to true
javamelody.spring-monitoring-enabled=false
# Initialization parameters for JavaMelody (optional)
# See: https://github.com/javamelody/javamelody/wiki/UserGuide#6-optional-parameters
# log http requests
javamelody.init-parameters.log=true

      4.  Start Bitbucket's service
      5.  Browse to <Bitbucket_URL>/monitoring to get access to the JavaMelody console

*Notes*
- Only Memory, CPU and Http sessions will be tracked;
- Bitbucket does not allow specifying a DataSource via JNDI, so it won't possible to get any SQL monitoring;
- It's be possible for JavaMelody, when loaded from a plugin, to interact with the host application's Spring underpinnings -> That's why we recommend setting javamelody.spring-monitoring-enabled=false
- javamelody.excluded-datasources=secretSource,topSecretSource can't be used either, since JNDI is not allowed.

Hope that helps

[Emeric Vernat]

Thanks Douglas for tests and the process.

There were a few problems with that process:

• The given version of the plugin is now obsolete.
• javamelody.enabled, javamelody.spring-monitoring-enabled and javamelody.init-parameters.log are only for the javamelody spring-boot-starter and does nothing when using the plugin.
• There is no warning that the access to the monitoring page is not restricted in Bitbucket unlike in JIRA/Confluence/Bamboo.

So, there is now an official process to install the javamelody plugin in Bitbucket and it is declared compatible with Bitbucket in the marketplace: https://github.com/javamelody/javamelody/wiki/AtlassianPlugin#Bitbucket

And I would like to improve the plugin by importing a Spring post-processor for the datasource (to monitor jdbc connections and SQL requests) and also by getting the current authenticated user if any from the plugin's filter.

I have started a new discussion for that.