Status¶

The Server Status page has two tabs to summarize the current status of GeoServer. The Status tab provides a summary of server configuration parameters and run-time status. The modules tab provides the status of the various modules installed on the server. This page provides a useful diagnostic tool in a testing environment.

Server Status¶

Status Page (default tab)¶

Status Field Descriptions¶

The following table describes the current status indicators.

Option	Description
Data directory	Shows the path to the GeoServer data directory (GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR property).
Locks	A WFS has the ability to lock features to prevent more than one person from updating the feature at one time. If data is locked, edits can be performed by a single WFS editor. When the edits are posted, the locks are released and features can be edited by other WFS editors. A zero in the locks field means all locks are released. If locks is non-zero, then pressing “free locks,” releases all feature locks currently help by the server, and updates the field value to zero.
Connections	Refers to the numbers of vector stores, in the above case 4, that were able to connect.
Memory Usage	The amount of memory current used by GeoServer. In the above example, 118 MB of memory out of a total of 910 MB is being used. Clicking on the “Free Memory” button, cleans up memory marked for deletion by running the garbage collector.
JVM Version	Denotes which version of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is been used to power the server. Here the JVM is Oracle Corporation.: 1.8.0_60.
Java Rendering Engine	Shows the rendering engine used for vector operations.
Available Fonts	Shows the number of fonts available. Selecting the link will show the full list.
Native JAI	GeoServer uses Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) framework for image rendering and coverage manipulation. When properly installed (true), JAI makes WCS and WMS performance faster and more efficient.
Native JAI ImageIO	GeoServer uses JAI Image IO (JAI) framework for raster data loading and image encoding. When properly installed (true), JAI Image I/O makes WCS and WMS performance faster and more efficient.
JAI Maximum Memory	Expresses in bytes the amount of memory available for tile cache, in this case 455 Mbytes.
JAI Memory Usage	Run-time amount of memory is used for the tile cache. Clicking on the “Free Memory” button, clears available JAI memory by running the tile cache flushing.
JAI Memory Threshold	Refers to the percentage, e.g. 75, of cache memory to retain during tile removal.
Number of JAI Tile Threads	The number of parallel threads used by the scheduler to handle tiles.
JAI Tile Thread Priority	Schedules the global tile scheduler priority. The priority value defaults to 5, and must fall between 1 and 10.
ThreadPoolExecutor Core Pool Size	Number of threads that the ThreadPoolExecutor will create. This is underlying Java runtime functionality - see the Java documentation for ThreadPoolExecutor for more information.
ThreadPoolExecutor Max Pool Size	Maximum number of threads that the ThreadPoolExecutor will create. This is underlying Java runtime functionality - see the Java documentation for ThreadPoolExecutor for more information.
ThreadPoolExecutor Keep Alive Time (ms)	Timeout for threads to be terminated if they are idle and more than the core pool number exist. This is underlying Java runtime functionality - see the Java documentation for ThreadPoolExecutor for more information.
Update Sequence	Refers to the number of times (426) the server configuration has been modified.
Resource cache	GeoServer does not cache data, but it does cache connection to stores, feature type definitions, external graphics, font definitions and CRS definitions as well. The “Clear” button forces those caches empty and makes GeoServer reopen the stores and re-read image and font information, as well as the custom CRS definitions stored in ${GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR}/user_projections/epsg.properties.
Configuration and catalog	GeoServer keeps in memory all of its configuration data. If for any reason that configuration information has become stale (e.g., an external utility has modified the configuration on disk) the “Reload” button will force GeoServer to reload all of its configuration from disk.

Module Status¶

The modules tab provides a summary of the status of all installed modules in the running server.

Module Status¶

Field Descriptions¶

Module Name	The human readable name of the module, this links to a popup containing the full details and messages of the module
Module ID	The internal package name of the module
Available?	Whether the module is available to GeoServer
Enabled?	Whether the module is enabled in the current GeoServer configuration
Component	(Optional) Optional component identifier within the module
Version	(Optional) The version of the installed module
Message (popup)	(Optional) status message such as what Java rendering engine is in use, or the library path if the module/driver is unavailable

Module Status popup¶

System Status¶

System Status adds some extra information about the system in the GeoServer status page in a tab named System Status and make that info queryable through GeoServer REST interface. This info should allow an administrator to get a quick understanding about the status of the GeoServer instance.

Library OSHI is used to retrieving system-level information without depending on native libraries or DLLs, relying solely on Apache JNA. Major operating systems (Linux, Windows and MacOX) are supported out of the box.

The available system information is:

Info	Example	Description
Operating system	Linux Mint 18	Name of the operating system and the used version
Uptime	08:34:50	Up time of the system
System average load 1 minute	0.90	System average load for the last minute
System average load 5 minutes	1.12	System average load for the last five minute
System average load 15 minute	0.68	System average load for the last fifteen minute
Number of physical CPUs	4	Number of physical CPUs / cores available
Number of logical CPUs	8	Number of logical CPUs / cores available
Number of running process	316	Total number of process running in the system
Number of running threads	1094	Total number of threads running in the system
CPU load average	4.12 %	Average load of the CPU in the last second
CPU * load	11.43 %	Load of a specific core in the last second
Used physical memory	31.58 %	Percentage of the system memory used
Total physical memory	31.4 GiB	System total memory
Free physical memory	21.4 GiB	System memory available for use
Used swap memory	0.00%	Percentage of swap memory used
Total swap memory	32.0 GiB	System total swap memory
Free swap memory	32.0 GiB	Free swap memory
File system usage	65.47 %	File system usage taking in account all partitions
Partition * used space	54.8 %	Percentage of space used in a specific partition
Partition * total space	338.9 GiB	Total space of a specific partition
Partition * free space	117.0 GiB	Free space on a specific partition
Network interfaces send	42.0 MiB	Data send through all the available network interfaces
Network interfaces received	700.4 MiB	Data received through all the available network interfaces
Network interface * send	25.0 MiB	Data send through a specific network interface
Network interface * received	250.4 MiB	Data received through a specific network interface
CPU temperature	52.00 ºC	CPU temperature
CPU voltage	1.5 V	CPU voltage
GeoServer CPU usage	3.5 %	Percentage of CPU used by GeoServer in the last second
GeoServer threads	49	Number of threads created by GeoServer
GeoServer JVM memory usage	5.83 %	Percentage of the JVM memory used by GeoServer

If some information is not available the special term NOT AVAILABLE will appear. Values will be automatically converted to best human readable unit.

Usage¶

The system information will be available in the GeoServer status page in the System status tab (the following image only shows part of the available system information):

If the System status tab is not present, it means that the plugin was not installed correctly. The System status tab content will be refreshed automatically every second.

Enable All Statistics¶

Enables the displays the information of the listed System Status Info properties. It is disabled by default. Disabling is useful if GeoServer is generating a high CPU load due to system status computations.

REST interface¶

It is possible to request the available system information (monitoring data) through GeoServer REST API. The supported formats are XML, JSON and HTML.

The available REST endpoints are:

/geoserver/rest/about/system-status

/geoserver/rest/about/system-status.json

/geoserver/rest/about/system-status.xml

/geoserver/rest/about/system-status.html

The HTML representation of the system data is equal to the System status tab representation:

The XML and JSON representations are quite similar, for each system information the following attributes will be available:

Name	Description
name	name of the metric
available	TRUE if the system information value is available
description	description of this system information
unit	unit of the system information, can be empty
category	category of this system information
priority	this value can be used to render the metrics in a predefined order
identifier	identifies the resource associated with the metric, e.g. file partition name

Example of XML representation:

    <metrics>
<metric>
  <value>99614720</value>
  <available>true</available>
  <description>Partition [/dev/nvme0n1p2] total space</description>
  <name>PARTITION_TOTAL</name>
  <unit>bytes</unit>
  <category>FILE_SYSTEM</category>
  <identifier>/dev/nvme0n1p2</identifier>
  <priority>507</priority>
</metric>
            (...)

Example of JSON representation:

{
    "metrics": {
        "metric": [
            {
          "available": true,
          "category": "FILE_SYSTEM",
          "description": "Partition [/dev/nvme0n1p2] total space",
          "identifier": "/dev/nvme0n1p2",
          "name": "PARTITION_TOTAL",
          "priority": 507,
          "unit": "bytes",
          "value": 99614720
      },
            (...)

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Status¶

Server Status¶

Status Field Descriptions¶

Module Status¶

Field Descriptions¶

System Status¶

Usage¶

Enable All Statistics¶

REST interface¶

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