title: Tomcat Monitoring - connectionCount JMX mbean
body: <p><strong>Question 1:</strong> </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7790303/tomcat-thread-monitoring-mbeans-description">This questions</a> describes what is the currentTheadBusy and the currentThreadCount mbeans, but there is the connectionCount mbean. </p>
  
  <p>In this moment, the values of this 3 mbeans on my production Tomcat Application are: </p>
  
  <pre><code>currentTheadBusy: 1  
  currentThreadCount: 36  
  connectionCount: 249
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Why are there so much more connections than threads? How I read this values? </p>
  
  <p><strong>Question 2:</strong> </p>
  
  <p>How the connectionCount is related with the Manager/localhost/myapp/<strong>activeSessions</strong> mbean? The current value of this mbean is 1125. Are those values related or I am missing the concept?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>