Monitoring and Management
for the Java Platform

The Java Platform Standard Edition provides comprehensive monitoring and management support for the Java platform. 

API Specifications

Java SE includes the following APIs for monitoring and management:

  • java.lang.management - Enables monitoring and managing the Java virtual machine and the underlying operating system.  The API enables applications to monitor themselves and enables JMX-compliant tools to monitor and manage a virtual machine locally and remotely.
  • com.sun.management - Oracle's platform extension to the java.lang.management API and the management interface for some other components of the platform.
  • java.util.logging.LoggingMXBean - Enables you to retrieve and set logging information.
  • The Java Management Extensions (JMX) APIs - Defines the architecture, design patterns, interfaces, and services for application and network management and monitoring in Java. For more information, see the JMX documentation.
  • The Attach API - Oracle's platform extension that allows a management agent to be dynamically loaded into a virtual machine.
  • The JConsole API - platform extension that provides a programmatic interface to access JConsole such as adding a JConsole plugin. JTop is an example JConsole plugin available at the JDK_HOME/demo/management/JTop directory.

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