The jmcli is a command line tool that displays information about Java virtual maschines in your console.

1. Download the zip file for your platform

• Java 11 - Windows
• Java 11 - Linux
• Java 8 - Windows
• Java 8 - Linux

2. Unzip the downloaded zip file to a new installation directory
3. Add the bin directory inside the installation directory to the system path

You can use Docker to play with and learn about jmcli. Of course, you can use jmcli inside your Docker container to monitor your Java service

 docker run -it rweiw/jmcli:latest
 jmcli -V

Use jmcli -h to print the help.

This are the commands you can use:

Command	Description	Example
list vm	Lists all available java virtual maschines
list beans	Lists all available management beans
list attributes	List attributes
list threads	List all threads
list threads-states	List all threads and their states
list classes	List all loaded classes and the number of instances
info vm	Prints information about a virtual machine
info bean	Prints information about managment beans
info attribute	Prints information about attributes
info operation	Prints information about operations
set attribute	Sets the value of an attribute
invoke operation	Invokes an operation
chart	Draws a chart
dashboard	Draws a dashboard

The following Operating Systems are supported:

• Windows 10
• Linux

The following Java versions are supported:

• Java 8 (needs an installed JRE)
• Java 11 (needs a full JDK or at least a JRE and additionally the jdk.attach module)