As heap utilization approaches 100% and the inevitable OutOfMemoryError threatens to crash the production JVM, DevOps professionals who tend real-time Java ...

However, I've hit a problem with Swing/AWT. The minimal case is using a WTS to connect to a Linux server while forwarding X11 to open the JConsole in the WTS. With JDK 10, the JConsole opens normally.

JConsole is very light-weight and can be easily embedded into any app. It can also be used as a standalone system shell or command prompt (e.g. cmd.exe) for running scripts, code generators and/or ...

Fortunately, two of the main features JMX developers were likely to use in JConsole can be used with VisualVM as well. One feature I use very often in JConsole is the “MBeans” tab for ...

In this blog entry, I will be looking at using Orson Chart Beans to generate charts in a custom tab added to JConsole. Orson Charts (also sometimes called JFreeBeans in some of the documentation ...

To launch JConsole, open a terminal or command window, change to the directory containing it, and execute jconsole. When JConsole starts, it shows a window listing the managed Java VMs on the machine.

In the last article, we showed how you can use JConsole to manage a local application or just peer into the JVM for a view of how it is working. Useful as this is in development, out in the field ...

JConsole allows you to see inside your Java application while it's running. To do this you need to install the correct plumbing code, but we'll show you how. Keeping tabs on how your Java ...