VisualVM
A very useful and free JVM profiler is
VisualVM. At the time of writing this book, this tool normally comes bundled when you download and install the
Java Development Kit (JDK) from the Oracle Java site (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase). In this distribution, the tool is located in $JAVA_HOME/bin and named jvisualvm.sh (for UNIX-based environments) or jvisualvm.bat (for Windows).
As an alternative, you can download it from its own site (http://visualvm.java.net). This is where you'll find the unbranded bleeding-edge version.
The core of VisualVM is shared by the NetBeans IDE (https://netbeans.org). So, if you use the NetBeans profiler, you'll be using a lot of the functionality that is the same as those found in VisualVM, ...
Get WildFly Performance Tuning now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
