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Developers searching for a visual tool integrating commandline JDK tools and lightweight profiling capabilities
About VisualVM
VisualVM monitors and troubleshoots applications running on Java 1.4+ from many vendors using various technologies including jvmstat, JMX, Serviceability Agent (SA) and Attach API. VisualVM perfectly fits all the requirements of application developers, system administrators, quality engineers, and end users. For each process VisualVM shows basic runtime information: PID, main class, arguments passed to java process, JVM version, JDK home, JVM flags and arguments and System properties. VisualVM monitors application CPU usage, GC activity, heap and metaspace / permanent generation memory, number of loaded classes and running threads. VisualVM provides basic profiling capabilities for analyzing application performance and memory management. Both sampling and instrumentation profilers are available.
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