Java VisualVM, a better JConsole

A new tool is available for Java developers: VisualVM. JDK 1.6 update 7 and later comes bundled with this new tool. The executable (jvisualvm) can be found in bin or the tools directory.

The first thing I recommend doing is to install the MBean plugin. With this plugin VisualVM gets the mbean feature found in JConsole. In fact I never uses JConsole anymore since VisualVM has all the features, and more.

To install the plugin select Tools -> Plugins -> Available Plugins. Check the VisualVM-MBeans and press install:


Now attach to a process by clicking on it in the list. If the process is on another computer use the Remote-node.

This is how the MBeans tab looks like:


This is how the monitor tab looks like: