--- title: "Sending jmx metrics to Sumo Logic unified logs and metrics" page_name: "Sending JMX Metrics to Sumo Logic Unified Logs and Metrics" type: "blog" slug: "sending-jmx-metrics-sumo-logic-unified-metrics" published_at: "2016-08-23" modified_at: "2025-05-09" url: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/sending-jmx-metrics-sumo-logic-unified-metrics" canonical: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/sending-jmx-metrics-sumo-logic-unified-metrics" markdown_url: "https://www.sumologic.com/blog/sending-jmx-metrics-sumo-logic-unified-metrics.md" lang: "en" excerpt: "A step-by-step overview of how Mayvenn started sending JMX metrics to Sumo Logic Logs and Metrics solution." taxonomy_blog_category: - "Case Study" --- [ All blogs ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog "blog")[Case Study](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/case-study) # Sending JMX Metrics to Sumo Logic Unified Logs and Metrics [Sheel Choksi](#blog-author-block-283) August 23, 2016 1 min read [Case Study](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/case-study) ##### Table of contents We’ve been using Sumo Logic for logs and were excited to have one tool and dashboard to visualize logs and metrics! In order to wire this up, we decided to use [jmxtrans](https://github.com/jmxtrans/jmxtrans) to regularly pipe the JMX metrics we query with Graphite formatted output to the new Sumo Logic collectors. These collectors can essentially be thought of a hosted version of Graphite.**Step 1: Upgrade/Install Sumo Logic Collectors** There’s a lot of guides out there on this one, but just in case you have existing collectors, they do need to be [updated](https://support.sumologic.com/hc/en-us/articles/205565268-Upgrading-Collectors) to have the new Graphite source. **Step 2: Add a Graphite Source for the Collector** This step can either be done in the Sumo Logic dashboard or through a local file for the collector that configures the sources. Either way, you will need to decide what port to run the collector on and whether to use TCP or UDP. For our purposes, the standard port of 2003 is sufficient and we don’t have an extremely high volume of metrics with network/CPU concerns to justify UDP. For configuring this source in the dashboard, the [Sumo Logic guide to adding a Graphite source](https://help.sumologic.com/Metrics/Metrics_Sources/03Graphite_Source_for_Metrics) does a pretty thorough walkthrough. To summarize, though, the steps are pretty simple: go to to the collector management page, select the relevant collector, click add source, choose the Graphite source and configure it with the port and TCP/UDP choices. This method is certainly fast to just try out Sumo Logic metrics. ### Article Tags - [Case Study](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/case-study) Sheel Choksi [](https://www.sumologic.com/feed "RSS Feed")[](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Sending%20JMX%20Metrics%20to%20Sumo%20Logic%20Unified%20Logs%20and%20Metrics&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sumologic.com%2Fblog%2Fsending-jmx-metrics-sumo-logic-unified-metrics "X")[](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sumologic.com%2Fblog%2Fsending-jmx-metrics-sumo-logic-unified-metrics "Facebook")[](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sumologic.com%2Fblog%2Fsending-jmx-metrics-sumo-logic-unified-metrics "Linkedin") [Previous blog Using Node.js npm with Artifactory via the API and CLI](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/using-node-js-npm-with-jfrog-artifactory-via-the-api-and-cli)[Next blog Docker 1.12: What You Need to Know](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/docker-1-12-need-know) People who read this also enjoyed [ Organizations in EMEA combat modern threats with cutting-edge cybersecurity technologies September 23, 2024 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/emea-modern-threats-cybersecurity-technologies)[ Five reasons why every CIO should consider Kubernetes December 12, 2023 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/why-use-kubernetes)[ If and how to return to the office: Data-driven decision making November 3, 2022 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/return-to-office-data-driven-decision-making)[ How Goibibo uses Sumo Logic to get log analytics at cloud scale September 17, 2020 ](https://www.sumologic.com/blog/goibibo-log-analytics) [AI Instructions](https://www.sumologic.com/ai-instructions.md)