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.
This profiler is for .NET, not for Java