VisualVM Alternatives

VisualVM is described as 'Visual tool integrating several commandline JDK tools and lightweight profiling capabilities. Designed for both production and development time use, it further enhances the capability of monitoring and performance analysis' and is an app in the development category. There are eight alternatives to VisualVM for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Oracle Solaris. The best VisualVM alternative is Apache NetBeans, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like VisualVM are JConsole, Eclipse Memory Analyzer, YourKit Java Profiler and JProfiler.

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  1. Apache NetBeans icon
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    A free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web, and mobile applications with the Java language, C/C++, and even dynamic languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Groovy, and...

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • Apache NetBeans is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to VisualVM.

    • Apache NetBeans is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to VisualVM.

    • Apache NetBeans is Free and Open SourceVisualVM is also Free and Open Source
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
     
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    The Eclipse Memory Analyzer is a fast and feature-rich Java heap analyzer that helps you find memory leaks and reduce memory consumption. Use the Memory Analyzer to analyze productive heap dumps with hundreds of millions of objects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Profile any SE or EE application, server, technology and framework; on multiple platforms; locally and remotely; in development, testing and production. For teams and companies of any size.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • YourKit Java Profiler is the most popular commercial alternative to VisualVM.

    • YourKit Java Profiler is Paid and ProprietaryVisualVM is Free and Open Source
  5. JProfiler icon
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    JProfiler's intuitive UI helps you resolve performance bottlenecks, pin down memory leaks and understand threading issues.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. OpenBeans icon
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    OpenBeans is an open-source IDE distribution. It is not a fork of Apache NetBeans, but a distribution, in the same way Ubuntu is a distribution based on Debian. It packages the best there is in the Apache NetBeans* ecosystem, polishes it, fixes minor annoyances and serves them...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. AppTimer icon
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    AppTimer will run an executable a number of times and time how long it takes for the application to reach a state where user input is being accepted before exiting the application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    YourKit Profiler provides zero-overhead profiling for your .NET applications and makes code profiling and memory usage optimization simple and fast.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    This profiler is for .NET, not for Java

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    • YourKit .NET Profiler is Paid and ProprietaryVisualVM is Free and Open Source
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