We looked at Tomcat 8 in Part 1 of this series and at PSI Probe as a replacement for the default Tomcat Manager application in Part 2. Now PSI Probe is great for managing Tomcat and its applications, but it does not actively generate alerts if Tomcat is in difficulty, or any other part of the application stack for that …

In Part 1 of this series of three, I looked at the installation of Tomcat 8 on Debian Jessie. The standard Tomcat Manager web application is limited in functionality, and the look-and-feel is distinctly lacking, so here is PSI Probe instead. PSI Probe featuresPSI Probe supplements the basic functionality of Tomcat …

This is the first of three posts about the latest version of Apache Tomcat, still the most widely used application server, on Debian Jessie, with PSI Probe to manage it and OpenNMS to monitor its up-time. What's new in Tomcat 8?Debian Jessie was released with Apache Tomcat 8, which provides the following: Java Servlet …