If you know the MBeans that you want to monitor, and the attributes they expose (must be numeric attributes, like double), then this should help: https://network.jboss.com/confluence/display/DOC/PDK+Add+MBean+Metric This explains how you'd add new metrics to the JBossAS server resource. Our upcoming 2.0 release will completely revamp the way plugins are defined and configured - but this is what you'll need now for the 1.4 release View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4084624#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...