The latest articles on DEV Community by Mahdi AmirAbdollahi (@sudoitir). https://dev.to/sudoitir https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4173033%2F1eb37349-ae79-4b01-a2c5-1d099631aa5e.jpg https://dev.to/sudoitir en Mahdi AmirAbdollahi Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:34:58 +0000 https://dev.to/sudoitir/artemis-studio-an-open-source-cluster-console-for-activemq-artemis-3mih https://dev.to/sudoitir/artemis-studio-an-open-source-cluster-console-for-activemq-artemis-3mih <p>It's 3 a.m., <code>ORDERS.DLQ</code> is backing up somewhere, and the console that ships with Artemis manages one broker at a time. You open a tab per node and walk a JMX tree until you find it. I got tired of that, so I built <strong>Artemis Studio</strong>, an open-source console that treats the cluster as the unit.</p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fskb0ewmt3rd9a16aqpdo.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fskb0ewmt3rd9a16aqpdo.gif" alt="Artemis Studio screenshot" width="600" height="375"></a></p> <h2> What it does </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>Live topology</strong> with HA roles polled from the nodes themselves</li> <li> <strong>Every queue on every node in one table</strong>, sorted by depth</li> <li> <strong>Search over message contents</strong>, with a cost indicator that tells you whether a query is a cheap header lookup or a full body scan</li> <li> <strong>Message flow view</strong> across diverts, bridges and cluster hops</li> <li> <strong>Safe operations</strong>: dry-run on mutating calls, and you type the resource name to confirm a purge or delete</li> <li> <strong>Setup review</strong> that flags known misconfigurations</li> <li> <strong>MCP server</strong>, so an AI assistant uses the same permissions and audit trail as a human</li> </ul> <h2> Design choices </h2> <p>Brokers are polled with one batched Jolokia request per node, tiered by how often data changes, with a rate limiter so the console doesn't load the brokers it watches. The app is a single container: Java 25, Spring Boot 4.1, PostgreSQL with Liquibase, and a React front end with a plugin system.</p> <h2> Try it </h2> <p>It's alpha, so expect breaking changes. Apache-2.0, and not affiliated with the ASF.<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight shell"><code>git clone https://github.com/sudoitir/artemis-studio <span class="nb">cd </span>artemis-studio just up </code></pre> </div> <p>Repo: <a href="https://github.com/sudoitir/artemis-studio" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/sudoitir/artemis-studio</a><br> Story: <a href="https://github.com/sudoitir/artemis-studio" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/sudoitir/artemis-studio</a></p> <p>Issues, ideas and topologies you'd like supported are welcome on GitHub.</p> showdev opensource mcp devops