Service and logs

The host-side monitoring surface — what an ops engineer / SRE looks at when the web UI isn't enough or when wiring external monitoring. Covers the wrapper's status (works the same on Linux / macOS via nomaubl.sh and on Windows via nomaubl.cmd), the log file's structure, the two HTTP endpoints meant for probes and the patterns to push alerts when something goes wrong.

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status — the quick health check

Linux / macOS

./nomaubl.sh status
# NomaUBL [demo] is running (PID 12345)
# NomaUBL [uat]  is running (PID 12346)
# NomaUBL [prod] is running (PID 12347)

Windows

nomaubl.cmd status
REM   [demo]  running  (PID 12345)
REM   [uat]   running  (PID 12346)
REM   [prod]  running  (PID 12347)

Without arguments, the wrapper lists every nomaubl-*.pid file next to the JAR and prints the live state of each. With an environment name, it reports just that one:

Linux / macOS

./nomaubl.sh status prod
# NomaUBL [prod] is running (PID 12347)

Windows

nomaubl.cmd status prod
REM NomaUBL [prod] is running (PID 12347)

The wrapper also prunes stale PID files — entries for processes that are no longer alive are removed. So a single status call cleans up after itself.

Exit codes:

Code	Meaning
0	Every named env is running.
1	At least one env is down.
2	The named env's PID file doesn't exist (Linux / macOS).

Useful in scripts and systemd ExecStartPre:

Linux / macOS

./nomaubl.sh status prod >/dev/null || { echo "prod is down"; exit 1; }

Windows

nomaubl.cmd status prod >NUL || ( echo prod is down & exit /b 1 )

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The log file — nomaubl-<env>.log

Each environment writes its stderr + stdout to a single log file next to the JAR:

Linux / macOS

/opt/nomaubl/
├── nomaubl.jar
├── nomaubl.sh
├── nomaubl-demo.log
├── nomaubl-uat.log
└── nomaubl-prod.log

Windows

C:\nomaubl\
├── nomaubl-fat.jar
├── nomaubl.cmd
├── nomaubl-demo.log
├── nomaubl-uat.log
└── nomaubl-prod.log

Tail it:

Linux / macOS

./nomaubl.sh log demo
# or directly
tail -f /opt/nomaubl/nomaubl-demo.log

Windows

nomaubl.cmd log demo
REM uses PowerShell Get-Content -Wait under the hood

Lines you'll see often

Line shape	What it means
[INFO] Loaded config: /opt/nomaubl/demo/config/config.json	Service started, config parsed.
[INFO] Master key file: /opt/nomaubl/demo/.nomaubl-master.key	The master-key file was found and loaded.
[INFO] Connected to db-nomaubl as nomaubl	JDBC works.
[INFO] Schema bootstrap: 23 tables created	First start on an empty schema — F564* tables landed.
[INFO] HTTP server listening on :8090	Web UI is up.
[INFO] Scheduler started — fetchImportInterval=15min fetchStatusInterval=15min fetchAllInterval=0	Background scheduler intervals at startup.
[INFO] scheduler tick · fetch-import · 0 invoices to import	Routine scheduler tick.
[INFO] pa-default API call · import · status 200 · 1.2 s	One successful PA submission.
[WARN] pa-default API call · import · status 429 · retrying in 30s	PA rate-limit; will retry.
[ERROR] Connection refused — jdbc:oracle:thin:... (or jdbc:postgresql://...)	Database unreachable — diagnose at the network / DB side.

The format is line-based, level-prefixed. Easy to grep, easy to ship.

Common diagnostic flows

Question	Linux / macOS	Windows
Did the last scheduler tick run?	grep "scheduler tick" nomaubl-prod.log | tail -10	Select-String -Path nomaubl-prod.log -Pattern "scheduler tick" | Select-Object -Last 10
Have there been PA failures recently?	grep "pa-default" nomaubl-prod.log | grep -v "status 200"	Select-String -Path nomaubl-prod.log -Pattern "pa-default" | Where-Object { $_ -notmatch "status 200" }
What was the last error?	grep "\[ERROR\]" nomaubl-prod.log | tail -1	Select-String -Path nomaubl-prod.log -Pattern "\[ERROR\]" | Select-Object -Last 1
Did the service start cleanly today?	grep -A 5 "HTTP server listening" nomaubl-prod.log | tail -10	Select-String -Path nomaubl-prod.log -Pattern "HTTP server listening" -Context 0,5 | Select-Object -Last 10

Verbose mode

Some CLI modes accept --verbose to emit per-document lines (one log line per invoice). On heavy nightly batches this is off by default to keep the log readable; turn on per-run for investigation.

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HTTP endpoints — /api/build-info and /api/license

The two unauthenticated endpoints meant for machine probes:

/api/build-info

curl http://localhost:8090/api/build-info

{
  "version": "2026.05.26",
  "buildDate": "2026-05-26T14:33:00Z",
  "buildHash": "a8c4d1f2…"
}

Field	What it tells you
version	Release tag (matches the JAR filename / release notes).
buildDate	When the JAR was built.
buildHash	Git short SHA — useful when correlating with a specific deployment.

Useful for:

• Post-deploy smoke test — assert the version matches what you deployed.
• Liveness probe — non-200 = service down.
• Multi-instance audit — confirm every environment runs the expected version.

/api/license

curl http://localhost:8090/api/license

Sample responses:

{ "mode": "full", "customer": "ACME Corp", "expiresAt": "2026-12-31" }

{ "mode": "restricted", "reason": "License expired on 2026-04-30" }

{ "mode": "restricted", "reason": "No license configured" }

Field	What it tells you
mode	full (everything works) or restricted (limited functionality without a license).
customer	Subject of the license (only when mode = full).
expiresAt	License expiry date.
reason	Why the license isn't loaded (only when mode = restricted).

Useful for:

• Daily license check — alert when mode flips to restricted (somebody's license expired or wasn't installed).
• Pre-deploy validation — confirm the new env has its license before going live.

What these endpoints are NOT

Misconception	Reality
/api/build-info is a health check.	It returns build metadata, not health state. The HTTP status code (200) is your liveness signal.
/api/license is rate-limited.	No — poll as often as your probe cadence requires. Each call hits an in-memory cache, not the database.
They expose secrets.	No — the build hash + customer name + expiry date are not secrets. No passwords, no tokens.
They respect permissions.	No — unauthenticated. Restrict at the reverse proxy if your install is public-facing.

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Scheduler — confirm it's ticking

The background scheduler runs inside the -serve process; there is no separate scheduler daemon. The Scheduled jobs page shows each job with its state, last run, result and next run; from the host, the log file confirms the ticks.

grep "scheduler tick" /opt/nomaubl/nomaubl-prod.log | tail -10

If the last tick was more than fetchImportInterval + fetchStatusInterval + fetchAllInterval minutes ago, the scheduler is probably stuck. The fixes:

Symptom	Cause	Fix
No scheduler tick lines at all.	Every poll is inactive or its interval is 0.	Enable the polls on Scheduled jobs and set their interval in the job editor.
Ticks fire but never advance invoices.	The PA template (pa-default) is unreachable — each call times out.	Test from the host: curl https://<pa-base-url>/api/login_check.
Ticks fire occasionally then stop for hours.	The JVM hit an OOM and the scheduler thread died without restarting the JVM.	Check the log for OutOfMemoryError; bump -Xmx; consider Restart=on-failure in systemd (covered in Service and systemd).

Force a tick from the CLI

When investigating, run the sweep manually:

./nomaubl.sh fetch-status prod
# → runs one synchronous -fetch-status pass; output goes to stdout

Both fetch-import and fetch-status are safe to run on demand — they're idempotent against the PA.

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External monitoring patterns

NomaUBL doesn't export Prometheus metrics or OpenTelemetry traces. The three patterns that cover most real installs:

Pattern A — Log-based alerting

The single highest-leverage monitoring. Pipe the log file to your central log store (Loki / ELK / Splunk / Datadog Logs / Cloudwatch), then build alerts on log patterns:

Log pattern	Alert
\[ERROR\]	Page on-call for any ERROR; throttle to N per hour.
\[WARN\] pa-default .* status 5..	PA-side failures; page if persistent over 5 minutes.
OutOfMemoryError	Page immediately.
No scheduler tick lines for > 30 min	Scheduler is dead.
Connection refused.*jdbc:(oracle|postgresql)	Database unreachable.

# Example logrotate + filebeat config snippet
- type: log
  paths:
    - /opt/nomaubl/nomaubl-*.log
  fields:
    service: nomaubl
    env: prod

Pattern B — Endpoint polling

A small cron script that hits both endpoints and pages on failure:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# /usr/local/bin/nomaubl-probe.sh
set -e
for env in demo uat prod; do
  port=$(case "$env" in demo) echo 8090;; uat) echo 8091;; prod) echo 8092;; esac)
  # Liveness
  curl -fsS http://localhost:$port/api/build-info > /dev/null \
    || { echo "[$env] DOWN" | mail -s "NomaUBL $env down" ops@example.com; exit 1; }
  # License
  mode=$(curl -fsS http://localhost:$port/api/license | jq -r '.mode')
  if [ "$mode" != "full" ]; then
    echo "[$env] License mode=$mode" | mail -s "NomaUBL $env license alert" ops@example.com
  fi
done

Schedule via systemd timer / cron (Linux / macOS) or Windows Task Scheduler — */5 * * * * (or a /SC MINUTE /MO 5 task) is a reasonable cadence.

Pattern C — Host + JVM metrics

For deeper observability:

Tool	What it captures
node_exporter	Host CPU, memory, disk, network — every running NomaUBL process counts as one Java process.
process_exporter	Per-process CPU / RSS — track each nomaubl-<env> separately.
JMX exporter (Prometheus JVM exporter as a Java agent)	JVM-internal metrics — heap, GC, thread count. Add -javaagent:/opt/jmx_prometheus_javaagent.jar=9404:config.yml to the JAR command.
DB exporter (Oracle exporter, postgres_exporter, …)	DB-side metrics — active sessions, top SQL, tablespace usage.

These four together give 95% of the observability a production install needs. Wire them into the same Prometheus / Grafana stack you already operate.

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Log forwarding — keep history off-host

The wrapper writes everything to nomaubl-<env>.log next to the JAR. For long-term retention + searchability:

Setup	What
Filebeat → Logstash / Loki / Cloudwatch	The standard pattern. One line per JSON record — Filebeat reads, ships, you query in Kibana / Grafana / Cloudwatch Logs Insights.
Vector	Lighter-weight alternative.
Custom — journalctl if running under systemd	systemd captures stderr / stdout into the journal; journalctl -u nomaubl@prod searches it.
logger for one-off pipes	`tail -f nomaubl-prod.log

The server rotates its own log: above the Log size cap (100 MB by default) the file is copied to .1 and truncated in place, and five copies are kept — see global → Logs. Identical warnings repeated within the Log repeat window are counted rather than written, and the Log levels field lowers the volume per module. Logrotate (copytruncate, see Service and systemd) is only needed when the server runs under another launcher. Keep the long-term history in the central log store.

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Common ops pitfalls

Mistake	Symptom	Fix
Watching the IT dashboard but ignoring the log file.	A scheduler hang shows up in logs hours before the dashboard reflects "no new invoices today".	Wire log-based alerting (Pattern A above).
Polling /api/build-info every second.	Pointless load + noise in access logs.	30 s is more than enough.
Treating /api/license restricted mode as a hard failure.	Service still serves licensed features in restricted mode for grace period configurations; alarms wake people up unnecessarily.	Read the reason field; alert on expired / revoked; tolerate restricted only when expected.
Ignoring OutOfMemoryError in the log.	The JVM continues serving but the scheduler thread died — no batch is fired.	Set Restart=on-failure in systemd; bump -Xmx.
Logrotate without copytruncate.	The JVM keeps writing to the deleted inode — the new log file stays empty.	copytruncate in the logrotate config.
No PID file → systemd reports the service as dead while the JVM is actually running.	systemd kills the JVM on the next restart.	Always go through nomaubl.sh start (writes the PID file) or set PIDFile=... in the systemd unit.

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What's next

• Overview — when to look at the IT dashboard vs the log.
• Application → IT dashboard — the in-app live view.
• Diagnostics → Processing log — per-document trace.
• Diagnostics → Server log — the log file in the application, filtered by level and module.
• Installation → Service and systemd — supervision + log rotation setup.