System and method for monitoring and diagnostics in a multitenant application server environment

A method for monitoring and diagnostics in an application server environment, comprising:

• providing, at one or more computers, including an application server that enables deployment and execution of software applications, a plurality of partitions, wherein the application server is associated with a domain configuration that is used at runtime to define a domain for execution of the software applications,
• wherein each of the plurality of partitions are associated with a partition configuration, and wherein each partition provides a subdivision of the domain and includes one or more resource groups;
• and
• configuring a diagnostic framework to perform partition scoped diagnostic imaging, the partition scoped diagnostic imaging comprising:
• receiving a diagnostic image capture request at a diagnostic image capture module, the diagnostic image capture request requesting a scoped diagnostic image of the plurality of partitions, the scoped diagnostic image being targeted to a partition of the plurality of partitions;
• and
• restricting access to diagnostic image data to a partition administrator, the requested scoped diagnostic image comprising the diagnostic image data, wherein access to the diagnostic image is restricted to the partition administrator via a partition specific address, the partition specific address being associated with the partition of the plurality of partitions.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

• providing, at one or more computers, including an application server that enables deployment and execution of software applications, a plurality of partitions, wherein the application server is associated with a domain configuration that is used at runtime to define a domain for execution of the software applications,
• wherein each of the plurality of partitions are associated with a partition configuration, and wherein each partition provides a subdivision of the domain and includes one or more resource groups;
• and
• configuring a diagnostic framework to perform partition scoped diagnostic imaging, the partition scoped diagnostic imaging comprising:
• receiving a diagnostic image capture request at a diagnostic image capture module, the diagnostic image capture request requesting a scoped diagnostic image of the plurality of partitions, the scoped diagnostic image being targeted to a partition of the plurality of partitions;
• and
• restricting access to diagnostic image data to a partition administrator, the requested scoped diagnostic image comprising the diagnostic image data, wherein access to the diagnostic image is restricted to the partition administrator via a partition specific address, the partition specific address being associated with the partition of the plurality of partitions.