prometheus/jmx_exporter

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3320 stars · 1226 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

The Prometheus JMX Exporter collects Java Management Extensions (JMX) MBean values and exposes them as Prometheus metrics, or forwards them via OpenTelemetry. It can run as a Java agent inside the target JVM or as a standalone exporter scraping over remote JMX/RMI.

Use cases

• expose JMX MBean metrics to Prometheus
• monitor JVM applications without setting up remote JMX
• attach a metrics agent to an existing Java process
• export Java app metrics via OpenTelemetry
• scrape a remote JVM over JMX/RMI for metrics
• run multiple isolated metric exporters in one JVM

When to choose

• you need Prometheus metrics from Java applications exposing JMX MBeans
• you want to avoid remote JMX/RMI configuration by using a Java agent
• you need OpenTelemetry output instead of Prometheus scrape endpoints

When to avoid

• your application does not expose metrics via JMX MBeans
• you monitor non-JVM runtimes like Go, Python, or Node.js
• you need full application performance profiling rather than metrics collection

Facets

library · maturity active

monitoring monitoring jvm cross-platform prometheus-exporter jmx mbeans java-agent opentelemetry metrics-collection devops

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