Get Started

There are several options to start using Hawtio console:

The out of the box defaults try to do the right thing for most folks but if you want to configure things then please check out the Configuration.

Running from CLI (JBang)

You can install and run Hawtio from CLI using JBang. If you don’t have JBang locally yet, first install it following: https://www.jbang.dev/download/

Now you can install the latest Hawtio on your machine using the jbang command:

$ jbang app install hawtio@hawtio/hawtio

It installs hawtio command. You can launch a Hawtio instance with the following command:

$ hawtio

The command will automatically open the console at http://0.0.0.0:8080/hawtio/.

To change the port number, run:

$ hawtio --port 8090

For more information on the configuration options of the CLI, run:

$ hawtio --help
Usage: hawtio [-hjoV] [-c=<contextPath>] [-d=<plugins>] [-e=<extraClassPath>]
              [-H=<host>] [-k=<keyStore>] [-l=<warLocation>] [-p=<port>]
              [-s=<keyStorePass>] [-w=<war>]
Run Hawtio
  -c, --context-path=<contextPath>
                      Context path.
  -d, --plugins-dir=<plugins>
                      Directory to search for .war files to install as 3rd
                        party plugins.
  -e, --extra-class-path=<extraClassPath>
                      Extra class path.
  -h, --help          Print usage help and exit.
  -H, --host=<host>   Hostname to listen to.
  -j, --join          Join server thread.
  -k, --key-store=<keyStore>
                      JKS keyStore with the keys for https.
  -l, --war-location=<warLocation>
                      Directory to search for .war files.
  -o, --open-url      Open the web console automatic in the web browser.
  -p, --port=<port>   Port number.
  -s, --key-store-pass=<keyStorePass>
                      Password for the JKS keyStore with the keys for https.
  -V, --version       Print Hawtio version
  -w, --war=<war>     War file or directory of the hawtio web application.

Running a Quarkus app

You can attach the Hawtio console to your Quarkus application in a single step.

Set up

  • Add io.hawt:hawtio-quarkus and the supporting Camel Quarkus extensions to the dependencies in pom.xml (replace 4.x.y with the latest Hawtio release version):

    <dependency>
  <groupId>io.hawt</groupId>
  <artifactId>hawtio-quarkus</artifactId>
  <version>4.x.y</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Mandatory for enabling Camel management via JMX / Hawtio -->
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.quarkus</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-quarkus-management</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- (Optional) Required for Hawtio Camel route diagram tab -->
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.quarkus</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-quarkus-jaxb</artifactId>
</dependency>

Now you should be able to run Hawtio with your Quarkus application in development mode as follows:

mvn compile quarkus:dev

Opening http://localhost:8080/hawtio should show you the Hawtio console.

Example

See the following for a working Quarkus application example.

Quarkus example

Running a Spring Boot app

You can attach the Hawtio console to your Spring Boot application in two steps.

Set up

  1. Add io.hawt:hawtio-springboot and the supporting Camel Spring Boot starters to the dependencies in pom.xml (replace 4.x.y with the latest Hawtio release version):

    <dependency>
  <groupId>io.hawt</groupId>
  <artifactId>hawtio-springboot</artifactId>
  <version>4.x.y</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Mandatory for enabling Camel management via JMX / Hawtio -->
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-management-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- (Optional) Required for Hawtio Camel route diagram tab -->
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-spring-boot-xml-starter</artifactId>
</dependency>

  2. Enable the Hawtio and Jolokia endpoints by adding the following lines to application.properties:

    spring.jmx.enabled = true
management.endpoints.web.exposure.include = hawtio,jolokia

Now you should be able to run Hawtio with your Spring Boot application in development mode as follows:

mvn spring-boot:run

Opening http://localhost:8080/actuator/hawtio should show you the Hawtio console.

Configuring Hawtio path

If you don’t prefer to have the /actuator base path for the Hawtio endpoint, you can customize the Spring Boot management base path with the management.endpoints.web.base-path property:

management.endpoints.web.base-path = /

You can also customize the path to the Hawtio endpoint by setting the management.endpoints.web.path-mapping.hawtio property:

management.endpoints.web.path-mapping.hawtio = hawtio/console

Example

There is a working Spring Boot example that shows how to monitor a web application which exposes information about Apache Camel routes, metrics, etc. with Hawtio.

Hawtio Spring Boot example

A good MBean for real time values and charts is java.lang/OperatingSystem. Try looking at Camel routes. Notice that as you change selections in the tree the list of tabs available changes dynamically based on the content.

Deploying on a Servlet container

If you use Tomcat or Jetty, you can deploy the Hawtio WAR file.

Download hawtio-default.war

Please read Configuration to see how to configure the console, or in particular for security see Security.

Using Hawtio embedded in a Java application

You can also embed Hawtio inside your Java application instead of deploying it on a servlet container or application server.

To embed Hawtio to an application, add io.hawt:hawtio-embedded to your pom.xml (replace 4.x.y with the latest Hawtio release version):

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.hawt</groupId>
  <artifactId>hawtio-embedded</artifactId>
  <version>4.x.y</version>
</dependency>

Then write the following code in your application:

import io.hawt.embedded.Main;

Main main = new Main();
main.setWar("<path-to-hawtio-war>");
main.run();

If you wish to do anything fancy it should be easy to override the Main class to find the hawtio-war.war in whatever place you wish to locate it (such as your local maven repo or download it from some server, etc.).

You may want to turn off authentication before running the embedded Hawtio so that it can be accessible out of the box without proper authentication configuration:

System.setProperty("hawtio.authenticationEnabled", "false");