Monitoring Mule ESB

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The Mule ESB sensor is automatically deployed and installed after you install the Instana agent.

Mule, the runtime engine of Anypoint Platform, is a lightweight Java-based enterprise service bus (ESB) and integration platform that allows developers to connect applications together quickly and easily, enabling them to exchange data.

Support information

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To make sure that the Mule ESB sensor is compatible with your current setup, check the following support information sections:

Supported versions and support policy

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The sensor supports all versions of Mule 3.

The following table shows the latest supported version and support policy:

Technology Support policy Latest technology version Latest supported version
Mule On demand 4.9.2 3.x

For more information about the support policy, see Support strategy for sensors.

Configuring custom polling rate

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Note: Instana Mule sensor 1.0.7 and later support configuring the polling rate to reduce data ingestion. This feature is supported on self-hosted Instana backend 311 and later.

To configure a custom polling rate, add poll_rate in the <agent_install_dir>/etc/instana/configuration.yaml file, as shown in the following configuration:

com.instana.plugin.mule:
  poll_rate: 1 # Value is in seconds. Default value is 1 second.

Metrics collection

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To view the metrics, select Infrastructure in the sidebar of the Instana User interface, click a specific monitored host, and then you can see a host dashboard with all the collected metrics and monitored processes.

Configuration data

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  • Version
  • Start time
  • Initialised
  • Applications
    • Names
    • Flows
    • Endpoints
    • Container mode
    • Shutdown timeout
    • Synchronous event timeout
    • Transaction timeout

Performance metrics

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Applications

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Metric Description Granularity
Processed events The number of processed events 1 second
Average processing time Average processing time 1 second
Execution errors The number of execution errors 1 second
Fatal errors The number of fatal errors 1 second

Flows

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Metric Description Granularity
Processed events The number of processed events 1 second
Average processing time Average processing time 1 second
Execution errors The number of execution errors 1 second
Fatal errors The number of fatal errors 1 second