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# Monitoring Reference

Monitoring reference for GridGain 8 — the JMX metrics, system views, and generic metrics you can query to observe a running cluster.

Reference lists of everything GridGain 8 exposes for monitoring. For how to set up and configure monitoring, see [Monitoring](/docs/gridgain/gridgain-8/gridgain8-management/monitoring.md) in the Management section.

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[JMX Metrics](/docs/gridgain/gridgain-8/reference/monitoring/jmx-metrics.md)
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The most useful GridGain JMX metrics, grouped by monitoring task — data size, checkpointing, rebalancing, topology, caches, transactions, and more.
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[System Views](/docs/gridgain/gridgain-8/reference/monitoring/system-views.md)
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Reference of the built-in GridGain SQL system views in the SYS schema — caches, nodes, metrics, transactions, queries, statistics, and more.
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[Generic Metrics](/docs/gridgain/gridgain-8/reference/monitoring/generic-metrics.md)
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The GridGain generic metrics system — metric registers, exporters (JMX, SQL view, log, OpenCensus, OpenTelemetry), and the full catalog of available metrics.
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