[Jolokia module] Get value from inner path (substructure)

The Jolokia documentation (https://jolokia.org/reference/html/protocol.html#paths) shows that is possibile to retrieve value from "An inner path points to a certain substructure (plain value, array, hash) within a a complex JSON value".

With a GET the sintax to read that value is:
<base-url>/read/<mbean name>/<attribute name>/<inner path>

With a POST the sintax to read that value is:
<base-url> { "attribute": "<attribute name>", "mbean": "<mbean name>", "path": "<inner path>", "type": "read" }

In WebSphere AS I put this JVM custom property:
name: jvm.name
value: <jvm_name>

So if I call jolokia with :
curl "http://localhost:9999/jolokia/read/java.lang:type=Runtime/SystemProperties/jvm.name"
or:
curl -d '{"type":"read","mbean":"java.lang:type=Runtime","attribute":"SystemProperties","path":"jvm.name"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST "http://localhost:9999/jolokia"
I obtain:
{"request":{"path":"jvm.name","mbean":"java.lang:type=Runtime","attribute":"SystemProperties","type":"read"},"value":"<jvm_name>","timestamp":<timestamp>,"status":200}

But if in jolokia.yml I write:
- module: jolokia
metricsets: ["jmx"]
enabled: true
hosts: ["localhost:9999/jolokia/"]
namespace: "metrics"
http_method: "POST"
jmx.mappings:
- mbean: 'java.lang:type=Runtime'
attributes:
- attr: SystemProperties
path: jvm.name
field: jvm.name

I obtain the error:
elasticsearch/client.go:535 Cannot index event publisher

And if in jolokia.yml I write:
[...]
- mbean: 'java.lang:type=Runtime'
attributes:
- attr: 'SystemProperties/jvm.name'
field: jvm.name

I obtain the error:
ERROR: No such attribute: SystemProperties/jvm.name (class javax.management.AttributeNotFoundException)

The same error appear if I write:
mbean: 'java.lang:type=Runtime/SystemProperties'
or:
- attr: 'SystemProperties:jvm.name'

Which is the correct way to get value from inner path?

Thanks a lot

I'm not very familiar with the jolokia module hmm just curious have you tried this config?

[...]
- mbean: 'java.lang:type=Runtime'
attributes:
  - attr: SystemProperties
    field: jvm.name

Hi @Kaiyan_Sheng,
the code you proposed does not just get the value of custom property jvm.name .
With it all the content of the SystemProperties is taken, namely:

[...]
"value": {
"FFDCLogDirectory": "/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/[...]",
"FFDCProcessLevel": "4",
"as400.suffissoMembro": "U1",
"awt.toolkit": "sun.awt.X11.XToolkit",
"client.encoding.override": "UTF-8",
"com.ibm.CORBA.ORBPropertyFilePath": "/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/properties",
"com.ibm.IPC.requestTimeout": "600",
"com.ibm.SOAP.requestTimeout": "600",
"com.ibm.as400.access.SecureAS400.useSslight": "true",
"com.ibm.cpu.endian": "little",
"com.ibm.ejs.jts.processType": "server",
"com.ibm.itp.location": "/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin",
"com.ibm.jcl.checkClassPath": "",
"com.ibm.jsse2.checkRevocation": "false",
[...]
"jvm.name": "<jvm_name>",
[...]

@jsoriano Do you know if we support the inner path for jolokia?

Hey, I think that we don't support it, there is an open issue about that: Add path attribute for jolokia module · Issue #8964 · elastic/beats · GitHub

As a possible workaround the whole object could be collected and unwanted fields could be dropped using processors.

Thank you!

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