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-Welcome to jmxtrans
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+# Welcome to jmxtrans
 
 This is the source code repository for the jmxtrans project.
 
-The rest of this project lives on Google Code, primarily because there isn't a good way to write nice looking documentation for Github. When that happens, I'll move the rest of the project over here.
+This is effectively the missing connector between speaking to a JVM via JMX on one end and whatever logging / monitoring / graphing package that you can dream up on the other end.
 
-http://code.google.com/p/jmxtrans/
+jmxtrans is very powerful tool which uses easily generated JSON based configuration files and then outputs the data in whatever format you desire. It does this with a very efficient engine design that will scale to communicating with thousands of machines from a single jmxtrans instance.
 
+The core engine is very solid and there are writers for [Graphite](http://graphite.wikidot.com/) (recommended), [Ganglia](http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/), [cacti/rrdtool](http://www.cacti.net/), text files, and stdout. A writer for [OpenTSDB](http://opentsdb.net/) would be a great addition. Feel free to suggest more on the discussion group or issue tracker.
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+  * See the [Wiki](https://github.com/lookfirst/jmxtrans/wiki) for full documentation.
+  * Join the [Google Group](http://groups.google.com/group/jmxtrans) if you have anything to discuss.
+  * People are [talking - this is me! (skip to 21:45)](http://www.justin.tv/kctv88/b/290736874) and [talking](http://www.slideshare.net/cyrille.leclerc/paris-devops-monitoring-and-feature-toggle-pattern-with-jmx) and [talking (skip to 34:40)](http://www.justin.tv/kctv88/b/288229232) and [(french)](http://www.slideshare.net/henri.gomez/devops-retour-dexprience-marsjug-du-29-juin-2011 taking) about it.
+  * If you like this project, please tell your friends, blog & tweet. I'd really love your help getting more publicity.
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+Coda Hale did [an excellent talk](http://pivotallabs.com/talks/139-metrics-metrics-everywhere) for [Pivotal Labs](http://pivotallabs.com/) on *why* metrics matter. Great justification for using a tool like jmxtrans.
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+![render](http://jmxtrans.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/render.png)