Hazelcast Management Center Reference Manual

Hazelcast Management Center is delivered with Hazelcast IMDG. It can also be downloaded as a separate package from the hazelcast.org website.

See the Hazelcast IMDG Reference Manual for all Hazelcast IMDG topics including the clusters and their operations, clients, data structures, computing and WAN replication.

This Reference Manual is free and provided under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Hazelcast Management Center requires either a Management Center license or Hazelcast IMDG Enterprise license or Hazelcast IMDG Enterprise HD license. It also has a free version which lets you to monitor your cluster having up to three IMDG members.

Hazelcast is a registered trademark of Hazelcast, Inc. All other trademarks in this manual are held by their respective owners.

Support is provided via the following channels:

See the Release Notes document for the new features, enhancements and fixes performed for each Hazelcast Management Center release.

Hazelcast Management Center is included in the Hazelcast IMDG download package. You can download it from the download page of Hazelcast’s website.

When a new Hazelcast IMDG version is released, it comes with a Management Center that is compatible with IMDG. There may be times when a new Management Center version is released before a new version of Hazelcast IMDG. In that case, you may download the new Management Center from its download page as a separate package.

You have the following options to start the Management Center service:

After the above steps are completed, let’s quickly open the Management Center user interface with the default settings.

Assuming that you have started your Hazelcast IMDG cluster with a single member on your local machine and the Management Center service on http://localhost:8080, follow the below instructions:

See Launching the Management Center User Interface chapter for more details.

Also see here in the Hazelcast IMDG Reference Manual for information on starting a Hazelcast member.

When starting the Management Center from the command line, a license can be provided using the system property hazelcast.mc.license. For example by using the command line parameter:

When this option is used, the license provided takes precedence over any license set and stored previously using the user interface. Previously stored licenses are not affected and will be used again when the Management Center is started without the hazelcast.mc.license property. This also means no new license can be stored when the property is used.

You can also start the Management Center with an extra classpath entry (for example, when using JAAS authentication) by using the following command:

On Windows, the command becomes as follows (semicolon instead of colon):

You can configure the client instance that is used for connecting to the cluster by using the following command line parameters:

Note that these parameters apply to all clients that are started by Management Center.

You can also pass in a custom client configuration file to Management Center. These parameters override any configuration you pass as part of adding a new cluster connection. Following is a list of all other client configuration parameters that are overriden by Management Center when creating clients to connect to clusters:

The disk space used by the Management Center is constrained to avoid exceeding available disk space. When the set limit is exceeded, the Management Center deals with this in the following ways:

Usually, either of the above automatically resolves the situation and makes room for new data. Depending on the disk usage configuration and the kind of data that contributes to exceeding the limit it can occur that the limit continues to be exceeded. In this case, the Management Center does not store new metrics data. Other data (like configurations and account information) is still stored as they hardly cause larger data volumes.

An active blockage is reported in the UI as an error notification, as shown below:

However, storage operations do not explicitly fail or report errors since this would constantly cause interruptions and error logging both in the UI and logs.

One way to resolve a blockage is to restart the Management Center with a higher limit or in the purge mode (if not used before).

You can use the following system properties to configure the Management Center’s disk usage control:

It is important to understand that the limit given is a soft limit, a high water mark. The Management Center will act if it is exceeded but it might be exceeded by a margin between two measurements. Do not set it to the absolute maximum disk space available. A smaller interval increases accuracy but also performance overhead.

In case of a misconfiguration of any of the above three properties, the Management Center logs the problem and aborts startup immediately.

When running the Management Center from the command line, you can enable the Health Check endpoint. This endpoint responds with 200 OK HTTP status code once the Management Center web application has started. The endpoint is available on port <Management Center HTTP port> + 1 with context path <Management Center context path>/health (by default, its URL is http://localhost:8081/health). Note that the HTTP protocol is always used for the Health Check endpoint, independently of TLS/SSL settings, and no additional authentication is enforced for it.

If you want to enable the Health Check endpoint, use the following command line argument:

This section provides information on how to configure the Management Center sessions for various aspects including timeouts and login/logout operations.

This section provides information on how to use and manage the Management Center with TLS/SSL and mutual authentication. You will also learn how to force the users to specify passwords that are hard to guess.

The Management Center uses Logback for its logging. By default, it uses the following configuration:

To change the logging configuration, you can create a custom Logback configuration file and start the Management Center with the -Dlogback.configurationFile option pointing to your configuration file.

For example, you can create a file named logback-custom.xml with the following content and set logging level to DEBUG. To use this file as the logging configuration, you need to start the Management Center with the -Dlogback.configurationFile=/path/to/your/logback-custom.xml command line parameter:

To write log messages into rolling log files (in parallel with printing them into the console), you can use a similar Logback configuration file:

Variable replacers are used to replace custom strings during loading the configuration, either passed as command line arguments, used during UI based Management Center configuration, or configured with Management Center Configuration Tool. They can be used to mask sensitive information such as usernames and passwords. Of course their usage is not limited to security related information.

Variable replacers implement the interface com.hazelcast.webmonitor.configreplacer.spi.ConfigReplacer and they are configured via the following command line arguments:

The following replacer classes are provided by Hazelcast as example implementations of the ConfigReplacer interface. Note that you can also implement your own replacers.

Each example replacer is explained in the following sections.

As mentioned above, available security providers are Default, Active Directory, LDAP and JAAS. They are described in the following below sections.

The toolbar has the following elements:

The Management Center user interface includes a menu on the left which lists the data structures in the cluster, cluster members and clients connected to the cluster (numbers in square brackets show the instance count for each entity), as shown below. You can also see an overview state of your cluster, execute commands and scripts, and perform user/license operations using this menu:

The menu consists of the following parent menu headings:

The following is the list of all menu items with links to their explanations:

Click on the "Add Cluster Config" button as seen in the above screenshot. The following page appears:

Click on the Save button and the "Manage Clusters" page loads with the new cluster configuration added, as shown below:

Here, you can see the state of the cluster and member count. Also, at the top left of the cluster box, you see the green colored dot, meaning that Management Center is connected to your cluster.

You can add multiple cluster configurations using the same mechanism as explained above.

The following page shows an example where Management Center is and is not able to connect one of clusters:

You can edit or delete a cluster configuration using the icons on any cluster’s box area in this page.

To see the status of a cluster, click on its Select button. The "Dashboard" page of the related cluster will load; see the Dashboard Page chapter for the details. Clicking on the Select button and selecting a cluster in the cluster selector (located at the toolbar) have the same functionality.

Alternatively, you can upload a configuration file for the Management Center client created for your IMDG cluster. For this, click on the Upload Config File button which is seen after you click on the "Add Cluster Config" button. The following page appears:

The name of your cluster will be automatically generated as specified in the configuration file you upload. As mentioned before in the connecting members chapter, you can think of Management Center as a client that connects to your IMDG cluster you create. Therefore, this configuration file is a well-known hazelcast.client in XML or YAML language.

Here is an example configuration file:

You can simply drag this file onto the Cluster Config File box in this page, or find it using the browse link in the same box.

Select "Enabled" in the Cluster Config State combobox to apply the configuration. You can also select "Disabled" just to create the configuration and use it at a later time. In this case, the configuration is ignored until you enable it.

You can always go back to the form page (explained in the previous section) by clicking on the Add via Form on this page.

Using the "License" menu item under the "Management Center" parent menu heading, you can view the details of your Management Center license. An example screenshot is shown below.

It shows the expiration date, total licensed member count and type of your Management Center license.

For security reasons, the license key itself is not shown. Instead, SHA-256 hash of the key as a Base64 encoded string is shown.

If there are any problems related to your Management Center license, "License" menu item is highlighted with red exclamation points. In this case, please check this screen to see what the problem is. The following are the possible problems:

If the Management Center license expires in 30 days or less, or has already expired, a warning will appear in the upper right corner once a day. Warning will contain time remaining until license expires or how long the license is expired. There will also be two buttons - the first one with label "Show License" will redirect you to the license page, the second one with label "Dismiss Alert" will dismiss the alert. An example screenshot is shown below.

To update the Management Center license, you can open the Manage License tab and click on the Update License button and enter the new license code.

Alternatively, a license can be provided using the hazelcast.mc.license system property (see the Starting with a License section for details).

Using the "License" menu item under the "Cluster" parent menu heading, you can view the details of your cluster’s license (Hazelcast IMDG license). An example screenshot is shown below.

It shows the expiration date, total licensed member count and type of your Hazelcast IMDG license.

For security reasons, the license key itself is not shown. Instead, SHA-256 hash of the key as a Base64 encoded string is shown.

If there are any problems related to your cluster license, "License" menu item is highlighted with red exclamation points. In this case, please check this screen to see what the problem is. The following are the possible problems:

If the cluster license expires in 30 days or less, or has already expired, a warning will appear in the upper right corner once a day, similar to the one for the Management Center license. Warning will contain time remaining until license expires or how long the license is expired. There will also be two buttons - the first one with label "Show License" will redirect you to the license page, the second one with label "Dismiss Alert" will dismiss the alert.

This part of the page provides information related to the memory usages for each member, as shown below:

The first column lists the members with their IPs and ports. The next columns show the used and free memories out of the total memory reserved for Hazelcast IMDG usage, in real-time. The Max. Heap column lists the maximum memory capacity of each member and the Heap Usage Percentage column lists the percentage value of used memory out of the maximum memory. The Used Heap column shows the memory usage of members graphically. When you move the mouse cursor on a desired graph, you can see the memory usage at the time where the cursor is placed. Graphs under this column show the memory usages approximately for the last 2 minutes.

This part of the page graphically provides the cluster wise breakdown of heap memory, as shown below. The blue area is the heap memory used by the maps (including all owned/backup entries, any near cache usage and cost of the Merkle tree). The dark yellow area is the heap memory used by both non-Hazelcast entities and all Hazelcast entities except the map, i.e., the heap memory used by all entities subtracted by the heap memory used by map. The green area is the free heap memory out of the whole cluster’s total committed heap memory.

In the above example, you can see about 3% of the total heap memory is used by Hazelcast IMDG maps, about 30% is used by both non-Hazelcast entities and all Hazelcast entities except the map and the rest of the total heap memory is free. You can see the exact percentages by placing the mouse cursor on the chart.

This part has the following status indicator elements:

This chart shows what percentage of partitions each cluster member has, as shown below:

You can see each member’s partition percentages by placing the mouse cursor on the chart. In the above example, you can see that each member has about 33.3% of the total partition count (which is 271 by default and configurable; see the hazelcast.partition.count property explained in the System Properties section in the Hazelcast IMDG Reference Manual).

This part of the page provides load and utilization information for the CPUs for each cluster member, as shown below:

The first column lists the members with their IPs and ports. The next columns list the system load averages on each member for the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. These average values are calculated as the sum of the count of runnable entities running on and queued to the available CPUs averaged over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. This calculation is operating system specific, typically a damped time-dependent average. If system load average is not available, these columns show negative values.

The last column (Utilization(%)) graphically shows the recent load on the CPUs. When you move the mouse cursor on a chart, you can see the CPU load at the time where the cursor is placed. The charts under this column shows the CPU loads approximately for the last 2 minutes. If recent CPU load is not available, you will see N/A values.

The Filter tab includes Cluster Client Filtering status, Cluster Client Filter Settings and Client Filtering Lists sections, as shown below.

The Cluster Client Filtering status section describes if there is a deployed client filtering list available to all cluster members (Enabled status), or if the feature is disabled for the cluster and the members allow any clients (Disabled status).

The Cluster Client Filter Settings section allows to specify the status of the feature and the filtering type and to deploy any modifications made in client filtering lists to the deployed list available to all cluster members. On the deploy action the following happens:

Once a cluster member receives the deployed client filtering list from the Management Center, it immediately applies the list to all currently connected clients and then uses it for newly connecting clients. Blacklisted clients may connect to another cluster if they are configured to support blue-green deployment. Please see the Blue-Green Deployment and Disaster Recovery section in the Hazelcast IMDG Reference Manual for more information.

The deploy action in the Cluster Client Filter Settings section is available by clicking on the Deployed/Deploy Changes button. This button also describes if there were any changes in client filtering lists that would lead to changes in the deployed client filtering list as the result of the deploy (Deploy Changes label), or there were no such changes (Deployed label).

The Client Filtering Lists section allows creation, editing and deletion of the client filtering lists. To create a new client filtering list, you need to click the Add New List button, which will open the Create List form, as shown below. Once you enter all fields and entries for the new list, click the Save button to save your modifications.

The following formats of list entry values are supported:

To modify an existing client filtering list, you need to click the Edit button, which will open the Edit List form, as shown below.

To delete an existing client filtering list, you need to click the Delete button and confirm your action in the opened dialog.

You can see a list of all the maps in your cluster by clicking on the Maps menu item on the left panel. A new page is opened on the right, as shown below.

You can filter the maps shown and you can also sort the table by clicking on the column headers. Clicking on a map name opens a new page for monitoring that map instance on the right, as shown below.

The below subsections explain the portions of this window.

You can see a list of all the caches in your cluster by clicking on the Caches menu item on the left panel. A new page is opened on the right, as shown below.

You can filter the caches shown and you can also sort the table by clicking on the column headers. Clicking on the cache name opens a new page for monitoring that cache instance on the right, as shown below.

On top of the page, four charts monitor the Gets, Puts, Removals and Evictions in real-time. The X-axis of all the charts show the current system time. To open a chart as a separate dialog, click on the button placed at the top right of each chart.

Under these charts are Cache Statistics, Cache Throughput, and Client Near Cache data tables.

Cache Statistics Data Table provides the selected cache’s statistics distributed over the members, as shown below.

From left to right, this table lists the following in real time:

To ascend or descend the order of the listings, click on the column headings.

Cache Throughput Data Table provides information about the operations (get, put, remove) performed on each member for the selected cache.

From left to right, this table lists the following:

You can select the period in the combo box placed at the top right corner of the window, for which the table data will be shown. Available values are Since Beginning, Last Minute, Last 10 Minutes and Last 1 Hour.

You can ascend or descend the order of the listings in each column by clicking on column headings.

Client Near Cache Summary provides summary information related to the Near Cache statistics aggregated for all the clients that have Near Cache enabled for this cache. Aggregated statistics are shown for the following periods: 1 minute, 5 minutes, 30 minutes and 60 minutes. Currently, the table shows overall Near Cache effectiveness, calculated as hits/total reads ratio.

Client Near Cache Data Table provides information about the Near Caches statistics, if available, on each client that has Near Cache enabled for this cache, as shown below.

From left to right, this table lists the following:

To ascend or descend the order of the listings, click on the column headings.

You can see a list of all the Replicated Maps in your cluster by clicking on the Replicated Maps menu item on the left panel. A new page is opened on the right, as shown below.

You can filter the Replicated Maps shown and you can also sort the table by clicking on the column headers. Clicking on a Replicated Map name opens a new page for monitoring that Replicated Map instance on the right, as shown below.

In this page, you can monitor metrics and also re-configure the selected Replicated Map. All of the statistics are real-time monitoring statistics.

When you click on a desired monitoring, the chart is loaded with the selected option. Also you can open the chart in new window.

Under these charts are Replicated Map Statistics and Replicated Map Throughput data tables.

Replicated Map Statistics Data Table provides statistics distributed over the members, as shown below.

From left to right, this table lists the following:

Replicated Map Throughput Data Table provides information about operations (get, put, remove) performed on each member in the selected Replicated Map.

From left to right, this table lists the following:

You can select the period from the combo box placed at the top right corner of the window, in which the table data is shown. Available values are Since Beginning, Last Minute, Last 10 Minutes and Last 1 Hour.

To ascend or descend the order of the listings, click on the column headings.

You can see a list of all the MultiMaps in your cluster by clicking on the MultiMaps menu item on the left panel. A new page is opened on the right, as shown below.

You can filter the MultiMaps shown and you can also sort the table by clicking on the column headers. Clicking on a MultiMap name opens a new page for monitoring that MultiMap instance on the right.

MultiMap is a specialized map where you can associate a key with multiple values. This monitoring option is similar to the Maps option: the same monitoring charts and data tables monitor MultiMaps. The differences are that you cannot browse the MultiMaps and re-configure it. Please see the Managing Maps.

You can see a list of all the queues in your cluster by clicking on the Queues menu item on the left panel. A new page is opened on the right, as shown below.

You can filter the queues shown and you can also sort the table by clicking on the column headers. Clicking on a queue name opens a new page for monitoring that queue instance on the right, as shown below.

On top of the page, small charts monitor the size, offers and polls of the selected queue in real-time. The X-axis of all the charts shows the current system time. To open a chart as a separate dialog, click on the button placed at the top right of each chart. The monitoring charts below are available:

Under these charts are Queue Statistics and Queue Operation Statistics tables.

Queue Statistics table provides item and backup item counts in the queue and age statistics of items and backup items at each member, as shown below.

From left to right, this table lists the IP address and port, items and backup items on the queue of each member, and maximum, minimum and average age of items in the queue. The order of the listings in each column can be ascended or descended by clicking on the column headings.

Queue Operation Statistics table provides information about the operations (offers, polls, events) performed on the queues, as shown below.

From left to right, this table lists the IP address and port of each member, and counts of offers, rejected offers, polls, poll misses and events.

You can select the period in the combo box placed at the top right corner of the window to show the table data. Available values are Since Beginning, Last Minute, Last 10 Minutes and Last 1 Hour.

Click on the column headings to ascend or descend the order of the listings.

You can see a list of all the topics in your cluster by clicking on the Topics menu item on the left panel. A new page is opened on the right, as shown below.

You can filter the topics shown and you can also sort the table by clicking on the column headers. Clicking on a topic name opens a new page for monitoring that topic instance on the right, as shown below.

On top of the page, two charts monitor the Publishes and Receives in real-time. They show the published and received message counts of the cluster, the members of which are subscribed to the selected topic. The X-axis of both charts show the current system time. To open a chart as a separate dialog, click on the button placed at the top right of each chart.

Under these charts is the Topic Operation Statistics table. From left to right, this table lists the IP addresses and ports of each member, and counts of the messages published and received per second in real-time. You can select the period in the combo box placed at top right corner of the table to show the table data. The available values are Since Beginning, Last Minute, Last 10 Minutes and Last 1 Hour.

Click on the column heading to ascend or descend the order of the listings.

You can see a list of all the Reliable Topics in your cluster by clicking on the Reliable Topics menu item on the left panel. A new page is opened on the right, as shown below.

You can filter the Reliable Topics shown and you can also sort the table by clicking on the column headers. Clicking on a Reliable Topic name opens a new page for monitoring that Reliable Topic instance on the right, as shown below.

On top of the page, two charts monitor the Publishes and Receives in real-time. They show the published and received message counts of the cluster, the members of which are subscribed to the selected reliable topic. The X-axis of both charts show the current system time. To open a chart as a separate dialog, click on the button placed at the top right of each chart.

Under these charts is the Reliable Topic Operation Statistics table. From left to right, this table lists the IP addresses and ports of each member, and counts of the messages published and received per second in real-time. You can select the period in the combo box placed at top right corner of the table to show the table data. The available values are Since Beginning, Last Minute, Last 10 Minutes and Last 1 Hour.

Click on the column heading to ascend or descend the order of the listings.

You can see a list of all the Executors in your cluster by clicking on the Executors menu item on the left panel. A new page is opened on the right, as shown below.

You can filter the Executors shown and you can also sort the table by clicking on the column headers. Clicking on an Executor name opens a new page for monitoring that Executor instance on the right, as shown below.

On top of the page, small charts monitor the pending, started, completed, etc. executors in real-time. The X-axis of all the charts shows the current system time. You can select other small monitoring charts using the button placed at the top right of each chart. Click the button to list the monitoring options, as shown below.

When you click on a desired monitoring, the chart loads with the selected option. To open a chart as a separate dialog, click on the button placed at top right of each chart. The below monitoring charts are available:

Under these charts is the Executor Operation Statistics table, as shown below.

From left to right, this table lists the IP address and port of members, the counts of pending, started and completed executors per second, and the execution time and average start latency of executors on each member. Click on the column heading to ascend or descend the order of the listings.

You can use the scripting feature of the Management Center to monitor the locks in your cluster. See the Scripting section to learn how to use this feature.

You can use the below scripts to retrieve various information about the locks in your cluster.

To find the number of active locks in your cluster, use the following script:

To print the locks in your cluster, use the following script:

To force unlock a lock in your cluster, use the following script:

To check if a lock is being hold by a member, use the following script:

You can see a list of all the PN counters in your cluster by clicking on the Counters menu item on the left panel. A new page is opened on the right, as shown below.

You can filter the counters shown and you can also sort the table by clicking on the column headers. The monitoring data available are:

Clicking on a counter name opens a new page for monitoring that specific counter instance, as shown below.

The table can likewise be sorted by clicking the column headers. It shows IP and port of the members that have a state for the specific counter named in the page’s title. The monitoring data available are:

You can see a list of all Flake ID Generators in your cluster by clicking on the ID Generators menu item on the left panel. A new page is opened on the right, as shown below.

You can filter the generators shown and you can also sort the table by clicking on the column headers. The monitoring data available are:

Clicking on a generator name opens a new page for monitoring that specific generator instance, as shown below.

The table can likewise be sorted by clicking the column headers. It shows IP and port of the members that have a state for the specific generator named in the page’s title. The monitoring data available are:

A WAN publisher can be in one of the following states:

You can change a WAN publisher’s state by clicking the Change State dropdown button on top right hand corner of the WAN Replication Operations Table.

You can initiate a synchronization operation on an IMap for a specific target cluster. This operation is useful if two remote clusters lost their synchronization due to WAN queue overflow or in restart scenarios.

Hazelcast provides the following synchronization options:

To initiate WAN Sync, open the WAN Replication menu item on the left and navigate to the Sync tab.

Click Start button to open the dialog, enter the target details for the sync operation and click Sync to start the operation.

You can also use the "All Maps" option in the above dialog if you want to synchronize all the maps in source and target cluster.

You can see the progress of the operation once you initiate it.

You can check if an IMap is in sync with a specific target cluster. Click Check button to open the dialog, enter the target details for the consistency check operation and click Check Consistency to start the operation.

You can see the progress of the operation once you initiate it.

You can add a temporary WAN replication configuration dynamically to a cluster. It is useful for having one-off WAN sync operations. The added configuration has two caveats:

See the WAN Replication section in Hazelcast IMDG Reference Manual for details about the fields and their possible values.

After clicking the Add Configuration button, the new WAN replication configuration is added to the cluster. You can see the new configuration when you try to initiate a WAN sync operation as described in the previous section.

IMDG members use the javax.script.ScriptEngineManager API for the execution of the script. Only the JavaScript script engine is available in most JVMs by default. To use a scripting language other than JavaScript on a member, you need to add the corresponding scripting engine in the classpath of that member. Here is an example of Maven configuration for several scripting engines:

The admin user can see and change the cluster state and shut down the cluster using the buttons listed in this page as shown below.

Cluster States:

Changing the Cluster State

Shutting Down the Cluster

If an exception occurs during the state change or shutdown operation on the cluster, this exception message is shown on the screen as a notification.

The admin user can upgrade the cluster version once all members of the cluster have been upgraded to the intended codebase version as described in the Rolling Upgrade Procedure section of the Hazelcast IMDG Reference Manual.

Open the Rolling Upgrade tab to perform a Rolling Upgrade and change the cluster’s version.

Enter the password of the cluster if security is enabled on the cluster (leave it empty if not), and click on the Change Version button.

Once the operation succeeds, you will see the following notification:

Using the Hot Restart tab, you can perform force and partial start of the cluster and see the Hot Restart status of the cluster members. You can also take snapshots of the Hot Restart Store (Hot Backup). When you click on this tab, the following page is shown:

Below sections explain each operation.

The CP Subsystem tab can be used to monitor overall status of the CP subsystem in the current cluster and perform certain management operations.

To enable Clustered REST on your Management Center, pass the following system property at startup. This property is disabled by default.

The entry point for the Clustered REST API is /rest/. This resource does not have any attributes.

This resource returns a list of clusters that are connected to the Management Center.

This resource returns information related to the provided cluster name.

This resource returns a list of the members belonging to the provided clusters.

This resource returns information related to the provided member.

This resource returns a list of the client endpoints belonging to the provided cluster. Consider using the newly added Client Statistics Resource as it contains more detailed information about the clients.

This resource returns a list of maps belonging to the provided cluster.

This resource returns a list of multimaps belonging to the provided cluster.

This resource returns a list of replicated maps belonging to the provided cluster.

This resource returns a list of queues belonging to the provided cluster.

This resource returns a list of topics belonging to the provided cluster.

This resource returns a list of executors belonging to the provided cluster.

This resource returns a list of clients belonging to the provided cluster.

In order to configure Clustered JMX, use the following command line parameters for your Management Center deployment.

With embedded Jetty, you do not need to deploy your Management Center application to any container or application server.

You can start the Management Center application with Clustered JMX enabled as shown below.

Once the Management Center starts, you should see a log similar to the one below:

You should be able to connect to the Clustered JMX interface using the address localhost:9999.

You can use jconsole or any other JMX client to monitor your Hazelcast IMDG cluster. As an example, below is the jconsole screenshot of the Clustered JMX hierarchy.

The management beans are exposed with the following object name format:

The object name starts with the ManagementCenter prefix. Then it has the cluster name in brackets followed by a colon. After that, type, name and member attributes follow, each separated with a comma.

A sample bean is shown below.

Here is the list of attributes that are exposed from the Clustered JMX interface.