Arthas is a production-grade Java diagnostic and monitoring agent developed by Alibaba. It attaches to running JVMs without code changes or restarts, enabling real-time inspection of threads, memory, classes, method invocations, and system properties through an interactive shell (telnet/HTTP/WebSocket) or programmatic APIs. The architecture consists of a core agent (bytecode instrumentation via ASM/ByteKit), a command framework with over 40 built-in commands (watch, trace, stack, dashboard, profiler, etc.), multiple transport protocols (telnet, HTTP, gRPC, MCP for AI integration), and a tunnel server for remote connectivity. It also includes experimental modules for JFR analysis, cluster management, and gRPC-web proxies. Key external dependencies include Netty, OGNL, CFR decompiler, and async-profiler.
Java Mission Control (JMC) is an open-source tool for monitoring, managing, and profiling Java applications. It provides a graphical user interface built on Eclipse RCP for connecting to Java applications via JMX, analyzing Java Flight Recorder (JFR) data, and performing heap analysis. The application features a modular OSGi plugin architecture with core libraries for shared functionality (unit handling, flight recorder parsing, JMX common) and application plugins for specific features (flight recorder UI, JMX console, browser, agent). Key capabilities include real-time MBean monitoring, flight recording control and analysis, heap dump analysis, and custom rule-based diagnostics.