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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Adjusting the Logging Level via JConsole The name of the logger in the above code is the class name or “dustin.examples.FickleLogging.” If I don’t realize this or remember it exactly ...