Currently, the only way to know the data that is provided by the monitoring data providers is to obtain a HealthSnapshot and call its getProperties() method. However, this only provides the names and values of the data, but does not provide important metadata such as the type of value (int, String, etc.) or the default value.

We propose to add one or more methods to the DiagnosticsMBean interface to obtain a collection of the provided properties as JPPFProperty objects, for instance:

public interface DiagnosticsMBean {
  List<JPPFProperty<?>> getMonitoringDataDefinitions();
}