Chapter 1. Overview of HawtIO

HawtIO is a diagnostic Console for the Red Hat build of Apache Camel and Red Hat build of AMQ. It is a pluggable Web diagnostic console built with modern Web technologies such as React and PatternFly. HawtIO provides a central interface to examine and manage the details of one or more deployed HawtIO-enabled containers. HawtIO is available when you install HawtIO standalone or use HawtIO on OpenShift. The integrations that you can view and manage in HawtIO depend on the plugins that are running. You can monitor HawtIO and system resources, perform updates, and start or stop services.

The pluggable architecture is based on Webpack Module Federation and is highly extensible; you can dynamically extend HawtIO with your plugins or automatically discover plugins inside the JVM. HawtIO has built-in plugins already to make it highly useful out of the box for your JVM application. The plugins include Apache Camel, Connect, JMX, Logs, Runtime, Quartz, and Spring Boot. HawtIO is primarily designed to be used with Camel Quarkus and Camel Spring Boot. It’s also a tool for managing microservice applications. HawtIO is cloud-native; it’s ready to go over the cloud! You can deploy it to Kubernetes and OpenShift with the HawtIO Operator.

Among the benefits of HawtIO are:

The following diagram depicts the architectural overview of HawtIO: