In this chapter, we covered the application server's management API from a developer's perspective, which will enable you to write your own scripts to monitor the health of your application server.

The most effective tool for monitoring the application server is the command-line interface. However, if you want to spice it up with some typical programming logic, you can resort to some other alternatives such as scripting languages or the raw management API.

We also explored some of the new, advanced features that were introduced with WildFly. You now know how to restrict access to your management console and how to audit the changes done to the configuration.

We have now completed our review of management. In the next chapter, we are going to discuss clustering, which is the environment where critical applications are deployed.