Arthas Tunnel¶

Manage/connect multiple Agents remotely via Arthas Tunnel Server/Client.

For example, in streaming computing, Java processes can be started on different machines, and it can be difficult to use Arthas to diagnose them, because the user usually does not have access to the machine.

In this case, Arthas Tunnel Server/Client can be used.

Reference:

Download and deploy arthas tunnel server¶

https://github.com/alibaba/arthas/releases

Arthas tunnel server is a spring boot fat jar application, start with the java -jar command:

java -jar  arthas-tunnel-server.jar

By default, the web port of the arthas tunnel server is 8080, and the port connected by the arthas agent is 7777.

Once started, you can go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ and connect to the registered arthas agent via agentId.

Through Spring Boot’s Endpoint, you can view the specific connection information: http://127.0.0.1:8080/actuator/arthas, the login user name is arthas, and the password can be found in the log of arthas tunnel server, for example:

32851 [main] INFO o.s.b.a.s.s.UserDetailsServiceAutoConfiguration

Using generated security password: f1dca050-3777-48f4-a577-6367e55a78a2

Connecting to the tunnel server when starting arthas¶

When starting arthas, you can use the --tunnel-server parameter, for example:

as.sh --tunnel-server 'ws://127.0.0.1:7777/ws'

You can also use the following test address (not guaranteed to be available all the time):

as.sh --tunnel-server 'ws://47.75.156.201:80/ws'

You can specify the agentId by the --agent-id parameter. By default, a random ID is generated.

After Arthas attach succeeds, the agentId will be printed, such as:

  ,---.  ,------. ,--------.,--.  ,--.  ,---.   ,---.
 /  O  \ |  .--. ''--.  .--'|  '--'  | /  O  \ '   .-'
|  .-.  ||  '--'.'   |  |   |  .--.  ||  .-.  |`.  `-.
|  | |  ||  |\  \    |  |   |  |  |  ||  | |  |.-'    |
`--' `--'`--' '--'   `--'   `--'  `--'`--' `--'`-----'

wiki      https://arthas.aliyun.com/doc
tutorials https://arthas.aliyun.com/doc/arthas-tutorials.html
version   3.1.2
pid       86183
time      2019-08-30 15:40:53
id        URJZ5L48RPBR2ALI5K4V

If the connection is not connected to the tunnel server at startup, you can also obtain the agentId through the session command after reconnection succeeds:

[arthas@86183]$ session
 Name           Value
-----------------------------------------------------
 JAVA_PID       86183
 SESSION_ID     f7273eb5-e7b0-4a00-bc5b-3fe55d741882
 AGENT_ID       URJZ5L48RPBR2ALI5K4V
 TUNNEL_SERVER  ws://47.75.156.201:80/ws

For the above example, go to http://47.75.156.201/arthas/?port=80 in the browser and input the agentId to connect to arthas on remote machine.

_images/arthas-tunnel-server.png

Best practices¶

If the arthas agent is configured with appName, the generated agentId will be prefixed with appName.

For example, if you add the startup parameter as.sh --tunnel-server 'ws://127.0.0.1:7777/ws' --app-name demoapp, the generated agentId might be demoapp_URJZ5L48RPBR2ALI5K4V.

Tunnel server will use _ as a delimiter to extract appName, which is convenient to manage by application.

Alternatively, you can configure appName in arthas.properties in the unzipped arthas directory, or in application.properties of the spring boot application.

Cluster Management¶

If you want to deploy multiple tunnel servers, you can use nginx for forwarding and redis to store agent information.

How arthas tunnel server works¶

browser <-> arthas tunnel server <-> arthas tunnel client <-> arthas agent

tunnel-server/README.md