Analyzing Java Applications on the Fly with Arthas
Arthas created by Alibaba is a tool that allows developers to connect to running Java applications without stopping them or suspending threads for debugging the application from the console. It offers features like monitoring invocation statistics, searching for classes and methods in the classloaders, view method invocation details (like parameters), show the stack trace of a method invocation, monitor system metrics and others. In the following examples I’m going to demonstrate some of these features applied to a running web application. ...