Hawt.io/jolokia exposes JMX as JSON. JMX is sorta like snmp but for jvms and you can easily write your own JMX beans for the jvm to monitor your apps, then hawt.io can be used to make those available as restful resources. Incredibly useful piece of software

Thank you. Maybe you can write a blurb for their front page!

Nah, the more useful a piece of software is, the worse the documentation. Awk, sed, for example

Same, I think it provides some UI components over some common dependencies/services/infrastructure for Java apps but still after reading the site and repo I wouldnt be surprised to learn I'm completely wrong

Ikr, I'm so clueless. Its like they're trying be obscure.