Why isn't VisualVM showing all the normal tabs

Question

Usually I see all these tabs in VisualVM for locally running Java programs:

However, I have one local program which is currently only showing me Overview and Monitor (even though it usually shows all those shown above):

Also interesting is that VisualVM itself doesn't present the Profile tab:

All three of the programs shown are running with the same JVM with the same Java Home.

What controls which tabs are shown for a particular program? How can I get them all back for my program showing just Overview and Monitor?

I have Visual VM 1.3.5 (latest at this date) and JDK 1.7.0_17.

Answer 1

You might need to enable jmx ports on your app. Try adding these switches to your VM and see if the tabs appear again:

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=6789 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false

Answer 2

Check that proxy is disabled if you are running VisualVM for local application

Answer 3

I just remove ~/.visualvm and rerun, See https://java.net/jira/browse/VISUALVM-598

Answer 4

I had a similar problem with missing profiler tab in VisualVM. I'm using Oracle JDK 1.8 and want to profile web application running on Tomcat 8 (JPA, Spring, Hibernate, Vaadin, etc).

I tried all above-mentioned solutions and many others found on the internet, but unfortunately, none of them solved missing profiler tab issue.

So I switched to Java Mission Control profiling tool (JMC + Flight Recorder) which is a part of standard Oracle JDK (from JDK 1.7 update 40) and it works great.

Answer 5

In my case, the issue was the usage of wrong JDK version. My App was running on jdk1.7.0_80, VisualVm running with jdk1.8.0_162. Replacing the APP JDK version from 1.7.0_79 to 1.7.0_80 fixes the problem.

Answer 6

I found that this was the issue of usage of wrong JDK version. In my case my application was running on 64bit JDK and I started VisualVM from 32bit JDK. After starting VisualVM from the same JDK on which my application is running, everything was fine. Hope it will help you.