After going through the effort of adding cache:true all over your application to take advantage of the Hibernate caching you will want to monitor the results. In order to do so you only need to modify two files, DataSource.groovy and a desired Controller.
//In your DataSource.groovy
hibernate {
generate_statistics=true
}
//In your Controller
def sessionFactory
def showCacheStatistics = {
def statistics = sessionFactory.statistics
log.info(statistics)
render statistics
}
Here is the output of calling the showCacheStatistics method on your controller:
Statistics[start time=1269058393252,sessions opened=27,sessions closed=25,transactions=18,successful transactions=3,optimistic lock failures=0,flushes=21,connections obtained=15,statements prepared=219,statements closed=219,second level cache puts=45,second level cache hits=1,second level cache misses=0,entities loaded=40,entities updated=5,entities inserted=48,entities deleted=0,entities fetched=26,collections loaded=20,collections updated=0,collections removed=0,collections recreated=12,collections fetched=18,queries executed to database=93,query cache puts=6,query cache hits=8,query cache misses=6,max query time=89]
Currently I'm showing just a direct rendering of the statistics object, but you could specify which parameters are important to you and only show those, or perhaps send the data to a gsp file and have it formatted in some way.