Analyzing Java Problems – Tools, Snippets and Workflows

When we need to investigate the cause for a dysfunctional Java application we have a plethora of tools available that on the one hand help us in gathering information, artifacts and statistics and on the other hand help us in processing this information and identifying possible problems. The following list of tools, snippets, workflows and information about specific artifacts could provide a starting point for analyzing such problems and covers topics like heap-dumps, thread-dumps, heap-histograms, heap-regions, garbage-collection-logs, hotspot-compiler/codecache-logs, debugging native-memory, tools for heap-dump-analysis, JVM unified logging and more.. ...

April 30, 2018 · 26 min · 5513 words · Micha Kops

Java Snippets

Remote Debug a Pod’s Java Process Simple steps for remote debugging a Java process running on a k8 pod: Edit deployment and add the following parameters to the Java start line: -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=127.0.0.1:5005 Also add the following port mapping at the section container → ports in the deployment: - containerPort: 5005 protocol: TCP Safe, wait for the new pods and then add a port forward for port 5005 for this pod: kubectl port-forward podname 5005 ...

March 1, 2010 · 13 min · 2583 words · Micha Kops