Management Center 5.12.1
Hazelcast Management Center provides a powerful and intuitive interface for managing and monitoring your Hazelcast Platform clusters.
You can use Management Center to monitor performance, view metrics, and perform administrative tasks such as license management and client filtering. This enables you manage your deployment effectively and respond quickly to any issues that arise, which helps maximize the value of your Hazelcast deployment.
For information about what is new and improved across Hazelcast products and tools, see What's new. For detailed information about Management Center changes, see the release notes.
Enterprise Edition versus Community Edition
If you have Hazelcast Platform Enterprise Edition then you have access to all Management Centre features, including advanced security, monitoring, and management features. You can either reuse your Hazelcast Platform license key or use a dedicated Enterprise license for Management Center. Otherwise, Community Edition offers basic functionality for small deployments (up to 3 cluster members).
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The following table explains which features are available in Management Center based on your license:
Key features and benefits
| Real-time monitoring and performance tracking | Enterprise Edition | Community Edition | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive dashboards for monitoring | Detailed statistics about members, clients and the data structures in real-time are provided to help you identify performance bottlenecks and optimize your applications. In Enterprise Edition there are no limits; in Community Edition, you're limited to monitoring clusters up to 3 members | ||
| Multi-channel monitoring | Delivered through secure Clustered REST and JMX capabilities, and secure Prometheus Exporter functionality with authentication support, providing integration into enterprise-grade monitoring solutions | ||
| Prometheus Exporter and Healthcheck | Prometheus Exporter provides all the metrics from the cluster in a Prometheus format. Config allows for the metrics to be filtered. Also included are Config Healthcheck counters | ||
| Powerful administrative tools | Enterprise Edition | Community Edition | Description |
| Client Filtering | Allows you to control which clients can connect to a cluster; essential for Blue/Green or Red/Black deployments | ||
| Config Healthcheck | Lets you identify and diagnose issues in clusters. Config Healthcheck runs automatically when cluster topology or member configuration changes | ||
| WAN Replication | Provides detailed metrics and management of WAN Replication and Sync, including Merkle Tree support for consistency checks and an option to force sync any deltas. In Enterprise Edition, requires cluster with WAN Replication license | ||
| Integrated tooling | Integrated tooling from Console, Command Line Client and scripting | ||
| Diagnostics | Allows you to check performance and memory usage. Admin users can take thread dumps | ||
| Enterprise-grade security and integration | Enterprise Edition | Community Edition | Description |
| Local User Security | User management with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) provides several user roles (Admin, User, Read-Only, and Metrics-Only) with varying permissions for different operations | ||
| Third-party authentication | Extends the RBAC integration with support for third-party authentication services, including JAAS, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML and OpenID | ||
| Audit logs | Track administrative actions for compliance | ||
| SQL queries | Enterprise Edition | Community Edition | Description |
| SQL Browser to execute queries | Enables you to execute SQL queries (such as CREATE MAPPING, INSERT INTO, and SINK INTO) on your clusters. Management Center shows queryable objects with a schema and index explorer, and can handle streaming SQL queries, displaying the last 1,000 entries as they arrive. In Enterprise Edition, includes ability to use SQL DML statements in SQL Browser; in Community Edition, included for cluster of up to 3 members | ||
| High availability deployments | Support for high availability deployments where multiple Management Center instances can connect to the same cluster, eliminating a single point of failure for management and monitoring purposes | ||
| Easy deployment with Docker | Get started quickly with Management Center using Docker Compose. For example, create a docker-compose.yml file to run both Hazelcast and Management Center containers, with Management Center automatically connecting to the Hazelcast cluster | ||
| REST API | Enterprise Edition | Community Edition | Description |
| Client Filtering API | Access to the Client Filtering settings via secure API | ||
| Cluster Metrics API | Access to metrics of all clusters connected to Management Center | ||
| WAN Replication API | Access to WAN Replication metrics and management via API | ||
| Cluster Connections API | Manage cluster connections to Management Center via API |
To access Enterprise features, a license must be installed on Management Center — see Enterprise licenses. The specific features enabled in Management Center depend on the license key. To verify which features are enabled, view the License screen.
Requirements
You must meet the following requirements to be able to run Management Center.
Supported Java Virtual Machines
Hazelcast supports the latest and long-term support (LTS) versions of the Java Development Kit (JDK). However, the JVM in some JDKs may not be compatible with Hazelcast.
Management Center 5.12.1 has been tested against the following JDKs.
If you install Hazelcast with Docker or a package manager, it comes with a supported JDK.
| JDK | Platform 5.12.1 |
|---|---|
| Amazon Corretto 17, 21 and 25 | ✓ |
| Azul Core 17, 21 and 25 | ✓ |
| Eclipse Temurin build of OpenJDK 17, 21 and 25 | ✓ |
| IBM Semeru Runtime 17, 21 and 25 | ✓ |
| Microsoft build of OpenJDK 17, 21 and 25 | ✓ |
| Oracle JDK 17, 21 and 25 | ✓ |
| Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17, 21 and 25 | ✓ |
Mac and Windows system requirements
Management Center uses the RocksDB library to persist metrics to disk. Because of this dependency, Mac and Windows users must do one of the following:
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Use the official Management Center docker image.
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Meet the following requirements:
- Mac: use at least version 10.15 version of Catalina.
- Windows: install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 redistributable.
Linux system requirements
Most Linux distributions are supported, assuming that glibc 2.12 or newer is installed.
Experimental support for AIX with Metrics Persistence disabled is provided.
Hazelcast cluster compatibility
Management Center supports the following versions of Hazelcast:
| Product | Supported versions |
| Hazelcast Platform | 5.7.x 5.6.x 5.5.x 5.4.x 5.3.x |
Browser compatibility
Management Center supports the following browsers:
- Last two versions of Chrome at the time of release
- Last two versions of Firefox at the time of release
- Latest Safari
- Latest Microsoft Edge
Internet Explorer 11 is no longer supported.
Licensing
A valid Enterprise license for Management Center is required for some features. For a list of Enterprise features, see Licensed Features.
A valid Enterprise license for Hazelcast members is required for the following features:
- WAN replication
- Persistence (Hot Restart)
- Rolling upgrade
If you do not have a license, you can use non-licensed features to monitor clusters of up to a maximum of three members.
If a feature in the documentation requires an Enterprise license, it is labelled Enterprise EditionThis feature requires Hazelcast Enterprise, a licensed edition of the Hazelcast Platform..
Get support
For information about the types of support Hazelcast offers, see Get support.
Next steps
For guidance on how to get up and running quickly with Management Center, see Get Started with Management Center Using Docker Compose.