Daily life of a Java Software Engineer.
VisualVM 1.3.2 released. Profiling and monitoring on the JVM
VisualVM is a tool to monitor and troubleshoot Java applications. It runs on Oracle/Sun JDK 6, but is able to monitor applications running on JDK 1.4 and higher. It utilizes various available technologies like jvmstat, JMX, the Serviceability Agent (SA), and the Attach API to get the data and automatically uses the fastest and most lightweight technology to impose minimal overhead on monitored applications.
With the out-of-the-box features it perfectly fits all the requirements of application developers, system administrators, quality engineers and – last but not least – application users submitting bug reports containing all the necessary information.
This is definitely a tool to check out!
See the video for yourself, it shows all the features! Or take it for a spin!
Features
| Feature | JDK 1.4.2 local/remote |
JDK 5 local/remote |
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| Enable Heap Dump on OOME | |
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| MBean Browser (plugin) | |
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| Wrapper for JConsole plugins (plugin) | |
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VisualVM is a Java monitoring and troubleshooting tool – it detects and recognizes running applications, browses their MBeans, takes thread and heap dumps, shows VM configuration and metrics and saves these information into application snapshots. It also provides basic profiling capabilities, but profiling is just one of the features. If you need a full-featured mature Java profiler for your daily development use NetBeans Profiler like you did.
Will VisualVM 1.3.2 be able to monitor jdk 1.3.x?