You use the jconsole
command to start a graphical console to monitor and manage Java applications.
Synopsis
jconsole [-interval=n] [-notile] [-plugin path] [-version] [connection ... ] [-J input arguments]
jconsole -help
-interval
Sets the update interval to n
seconds (default is 4 seconds).
-notile
Doesn’t tile the windows for two or more connections.
-pluginpath path
Specifies the path that jconsole
uses to look up plug-ins. The plug-in path
should contain a provider-configuration file named META-INF/services/com.sun.tools.jconsole.JConsolePlugin
that contains one line for each plug-in. The line specifies the fully qualified class name of the class implementing the com.sun.tools.jconsole.JConsolePlugin
class.
-version
Prints the program version.
connection = pid | host:port | jmxURL
The pid
value is the process ID of a target process. The JVM must be running with the same user ID as the user ID running the jconsole
command.
The host:port
values are the name of the host system on which the JVM is running, and the port number specified by the system property com.sun.management.jmxremote.port
when the JVM was started.
The jmxUrl
value is the address of the JMX agent to be connected to as described in JMXServiceURL.
-J input arguments
Passes input arguments
to the JVM on which the jconsole
command is run.
-help
or --help
Displays the help message for the command.
Description
The jconsole
command starts a graphical console tool that lets you monitor and manage Java applications and virtual machines on a local or remote machine.
On Windows, the jconsole
command doesn’t associate with a console window. It does, however, display a dialog box with error information when the jconsole
command fails.