tomcat

Tomcat Process Detector

Detects and classifies Tomcat processes running on the system.

[!WARNING] This is meant to be used as a sub-detector of the Java Process Detector and will result in incomplete metadata results if used on its own.

Overview

The Tomcat detector identifies Tomcat instances by searching for:

• CATALINA_BASE: Runtime configuration directory (per-instance, preferred)
• CATALINA_HOME: Installation directory (commonly shared, fallback)

It checks both system properties and environment variables in the following priority order:

1. Catalina Base System Property (-Dcatalina.base)
2. Catalina Base Environment Variable (CATALINA_BASE)
3. Catalina Home System Property (-Dcatalina.home)
4. Catalina Home Environment Variable (CATALINA_HOME)

The detected directory is used as the metadata name.

Sample Metadata Result

{
  "categories": ["TOMCAT"],
  "name": "/opt/tomcat/instance1"
}