Intro: Java Webapp Monitoring with Hyperic HQ + How to Alert on Too Many Errors in Logs

This post describes how to set up the Java-based open source monitoring tool Hyperic HQ to monitor application server error logs and send a single warning e-mail when there are more of them than a threshold. In the previous post Aggregating Error Logs to Send a Warning Email When Too Many of Them – Log4j, Stat4j, SMTPAppender we’ve seen how to achieve that programatically while this solution is just about configuration. We will also see a little what else (a lot!) Hyperic can do for you and what the impressions after a short experimentation with it are.