# Getting logstash-input-jmx up and running
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-logstash-input-jmx-up-and-running/73526
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [February 1, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-logstash-input-jmx-up-and-running/73526 "2017-02-01T13:56:18Z")
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### Author:  [@byoungman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/byoungman)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-logstash-input-jmx-up-and-running/73526/1 "2017-02-01T13:56:18Z")
I am new to the entire framework and one of the things that we want to do at my company is to use this jmx plug-in to monitor the JVM Metrics on our various Tomcat servers. So I was able to successfully get the plug-in installed but not sure if I'm going about configuring it the right way.
In the logstash.conf file I have jmx configured as such:
input {
jmx
{
path =\> "D:\LS\logstash-5.1.1\config\jmx.conf"
polling\_frequency =\> 60
type =\> "jmx"
}
}
In the jmx.conf file I have this:
"host" : ip address of the machine I want to connect to
"port" : 1099
"queries" : [
{
//Required, the object name of Mbean to request
"object\_name" : "java.lang:type=Memory",
//Optional, use this alias in the metrics value instead of the object\_name
"object\_alias" : "Memory"
}, {
"object\_name" : "java.lang:type=Runtime",
//Optional, set of attributes to retrieve. If not set retrieve
//all metrics available on the configured object\_name.
"attributes" : ["Uptime", "StartTime"],
"object\_alias" : "Runtime"
}, {
//object\_name can be configured with \* to retrieve all matching Mbeans
"object\_name" : "java.lang:type=GarbageCollector,name=_",
"attributes" : ["CollectionCount", "CollectionTime"],
//object\_alias can be based on specific value from the object\_name thanks to ${}.
//In this case ${type} will be replaced by GarbageCollector...
"object\_alias" : "${type}.${name}"
}, {
"object\_name" : "java.nio:type=BufferPool,name=_",
"object\_alias" : "${type}.${name}"
}
]
I'm not sure if this is running correctly or not - not sure how to test it.
I know I've included a lot of information but I wanted to try and give as much detail as possible.
TIA,
Bill
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### Author:  [@byoungman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/byoungman)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-logstash-input-jmx-up-and-running/73526/2 "2017-02-17T15:23:40Z")
Figured it out.
Started from scratch and did a complete uninstall/reinstall of the framework and was able to get it up and running.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-logstash-input-jmx-up-and-running/73526/3 "2017-03-17T15:24:03Z")
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