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Installing the Monitor Extension

The monitor extension is not part of the GeoServer core and must be installed as a plug-in. To install:

  1. Login, and navigate to About & Status > About GeoServer and check Build Information to determine the exact version of GeoServer you are running.

  2. Visit the website download <download> page, change the Archive tab, and locate your release.

    From the list of Miscellaneous extensions download Monitor (Core).

    • {{ release }} example: monitor
    • {{ version }} example: monitor

    Verify that the version number in the filename corresponds to the version of GeoServer you are running (for example {{ release }} above).

  3. Extract the files in this archive to the WEB-INF/lib directory of your GeoServer installation.

  4. Restart GeoServer

Verifying the Installation

There are two ways to verify that the monitoring extension has been properly installed.

  1. Start GeoServer and open the Web administration interface. Log in using the administration account. If successfully installed, there will be a Monitor section on the left column of the home page.

Monitoring section in the web admin interface

  1. Start GeoServer and navigate to the current GeoServer data directory. If successfully installed, a new directory named monitoring will be created in the data directory.