Top 10 Java Performance Troubleshooting Tools

Looking to troubleshoot your Java performance? Here are

10 tools you need.

Here are 10 tools useful for Java application performance

troubleshooting.

jconsole comes together with JDK 1.5 and above. It is a Java

Monitoring and Management Console - JMX-compliant
graphical tool for monitoring a Java virtual machine. It can
monitor both local and remote JVMs.

VisualVM is a visual tool that integrates several existing JDK

software tools and lightweight memory and CPU profiling
capabilities. This tool is designed for both production and
development time use and further enhances the capability of
monitoring and performance analysis for the Java SE
platform.

HeapAnalyzer allows the finding of a possible Java heap

leak area through its heuristic search engine and analysis of
the JavaTM heap dump in Java applications. It analyzes Java
heap dumps by parsing the Java heap dump, creating
directional graphs, transforming them into directional trees,
and executing the heuristic search engine.

PerfAnal is a GUI-based tool for analyzing the performance of

applications on the Java 2 Platform. You can use PerfAnal to
identify performance problems in your code and locate code
that needs tuning.
 JAMon is a free, simple, high performance, thread safe, Java
API that allows developers to easily monitor production
applications.

Eclipse Memory Analyzer is a fast and feature-rich Java

heap analyzer that helps you find memory leaks and
reduce memory consumption.

GCViewer is a free open source tool to visualize data

produced by the Java VM options -verbose:gc and
-Xloggc:<file>. It also calculates garbage collection related
performance metrics (throughput, accumulated pauses,
longest pause, etc.).

If you are running your application on HP-UX platform, check out:

HPjmeter

o Identify and diagnose performance problems in Java

applications running on HP-UX

o Monitor live Java applications and analyze profiling

data
 o Capture profiling data with zero preparation when using
JDK/JRE 5.0.04 or higher

o Run the HPjmeter console on HP-UX, Linux, and

Windows systems

o Improve garbage collection performance

HPjconfig is a Java configuration tool for tuning your HP-UX

11i HP Integrity Itanium and HP 9000 PA-RISC system
kernel parameters to match the characteristics of your
application. HPjconfig provides kernel parameter
recommendations tailored to your HP-UX hardware platform.
It offers save and restore functions for easy distribution of
tailored recommendations across your customer base. When
given specific Java and HP-UX versions, HPjconfig will
determine if all of the latest HP-UX patches required for Java
performance and functionality are installed on the system,
and highlight any missing or superseded patches.

Java Out-of-Box Tool is a stand-alone bundle that upon

installation will install startup (RC) scripts, modify kernel
parameters, rebuild the kernel, and reboot the system.
During startup, the startup scripts will modify system
tunables, thus providing better Out of The Box behavior for
Java.