Download and Run Axon Server (2024)

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to download and run Axon Server by changing configuration properties.

What is Axon Server?
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Axon Server enhances the Axon Framework by offering powerful, unified messaging services suited to Axon applications such as event storage, clustering, load-balancing, message routing, service discovery, and monitoring.

Download and Run Axon Server

1. Go to https://axoniq.io/ -> Download

2. Download the Axon Server ZIP File

3. Once download, extract the zip at local.

4. Start the axon server using the following command in a command prompt window.

java -jar axonserver.jar

The axon server will start on port 8024 by default.
5. Once axon server started, we can access the axon dashboard at http://localhost:8024

6. We can stop the server by using keys ctrl c.

Axon Server Configurations

1. Create the config folder and the axonserver.properties file for adding any configuration properties.

2. Axon Configuration Properties can be found on the Axon Configuration Properties website. We must use the prefix axoniq.axonserver for the configuration properties if we want to update any of the configuration properties. Furthermore, as stated in the axon server documentation. It is not necessary to use a prefix for server.port.

3. The axon server should now be up and running.

java -jar axonserver.jar

As you can see, Axon server is running on port 8888.
4. Once the axon server is up and running, we can go to http://localhost:8888/ to visit the axon dashboard. Node name, host name, and http port are reflected from the axonserver.properties file in the configuration section.