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jkpanera
jkpanera
Level 4
March 21, 2019

Can VisualVM profiling be used with AEM?

  • March 21, 2019
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Every time I turn the profiler on it hangs. I can't get responses back from my searches. I set up visualVM as per the standard Oracle docs (Java VisualVM) and connected to my AEM (author) instance and turn profiling on but whenever I make a request, it simply hangs.

Has any one used VisualVM profiling with AEM successfully? Is there anything special that I need to do?

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Gaurav-Behl
Gaurav-Behl
Level 10
March 21, 2019

It should work per Monitoring and Maintaining Your AEM instance

Try this: java - VisualVM Calibration Step Hangs with Windows 10 - Stack Overflow

The solution is to start VisualVM from command-line using:

jvisualvm.exe "-J-Dorg.netbeans.profiler.separateConsole=true"
    jkpanera
    jkpaneraAuthor
    Level 4
    March 21, 2019

    I'm actually running on OS X not Windows 10. I tried your suggestion anyway and it doesn't seem to help. Still hangs.

    Gaurav-Behl
    Gaurav-Behl
    Level 10
    March 21, 2019

    Try this to see the errors (if any) in terminal

    jvisualvm "-J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=true"

      A
      ameesht29076763
      March 22, 2019

      As per Monitoring and Management Using JMX Technology - Java SEMonitoring and Management Guide -

      Password authentication for remote monitoring is enabled by default. To disable it, set the following system property when you start the Java VM.

      You could either try - -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false

      or provide password using -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.password.file

      Couple of references -

      jkpanera
      jkpaneraAuthor
      Level 4
      April 30, 2019

      I tried that option but it still hangs when I try to start profiling.

      Peter_Puzanovs
      Community Advisor
      Peter_PuzanovsCommunity Advisor
      Community Advisor
      May 1, 2019

      Dear J,

      Just tried connecting from Windows 10(latest update from Microsoft) to AEM 6.4 SP2 with

      java version "1.8.0_201"

      Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_201-b09)

      Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.201-b09, mixed mode)

      and visualvm_142 works like magic.

      When starting both AEM and visual_vm make sure you have sufficient permissions to run both applications. As some corporate laptops are locked from doing even basic functionality.

      Regards,

      Peter

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