Console based JVM monitoring

jvm-top lets you monitor your Java/Scala/.. server applications from the terminal.

Requirement: a JDK8 on the server and JAVA_HOME environment variable pointing to it. It won't work with just a JRE.

To run:

1. Download the release and extract
2. Set JAVA_HOME environment variable: export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/jdk8
3. Execute ./bin/jvm-mon from extracted directory

Usage:

• Select a JVM process and press Enter to monitor it
• Press q or Ctrl+C to exit
• Press Del or Backspace to kill a process

Currently it shows:

• List of running JVM processes
• Cpu and GC load
• Heap size and usage
• Top threads with cpu usage

To build locally run ./gradlew installDist to install to ./build/install/jvm-mon/.

To develop you will need npm on your machine and then run ./gradlew npmDeps once to get dependencies.

jvm-mon is a Java application based on these awesome libraries:

• blessed-contrib terminal dashboard library in JavaScript
• J2V8 Java Bindings for V8 JavaScript engine and Node.js
• jvmtop Java monitoring for the command-line

The way it works is:

1. The java app starts a Node.js engine in-process
2. Node.js loads a script with all the widgets
3. The script calls back into java land to get metrics

Open to suggestions/contributions on what to add. This project was crafted in a one day so there's definitely room for improvment. Some ideas:

• View process classpath and parameters
• Loaded classes
• Windows build
• Profiler
• View JMX beans