Java SE Management And Monitoring Guide

Using JConsole

Quick Notes

To see the java process id in windows

1. Go to task manager, View -> Select Columns -> selet PID
2. or use jps -l to list all process

On the other hand start jconsole and it lists all java process that are running locally.

The JConsole graphical user interface is a monitoring tool that complies to the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification. JConsole uses the extensive instrumentation of the Java Virtual Machine (Java VM) to provide information about the performance and resource consumption of applications running on the Java platform.

In the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE platform) 6, JConsole has been updated to present the look and feel of the Windows and GNOME desktops (other platforms will present the standard Java graphical look and feel). The screen captures presented in this document were taken from an instance of the interface running on Windows XP.

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