JConsole can't find process

Question

I tried to run JConsole to analyze the memory used by a running process, but JConsole doesn\'t show me processes even though I am absolutely sure that one is running (in additio

Answer 1

8 years later... I had the same problem. I could only see certain processes but couldn't see and monitor any java processes running in a docker container in Linux.

Inspired by the Windows solution by RoyalBigMack:

• Solution 1. Run terminal as super user (su command) and run jconsole
• Solution 2. Run solution 1 as one command, sudo jconsole

Only the first solution worked for me, and once the jconsole UI popped up- all the hidden processes were now visible.

Answer 2

Just ran into this issue

If you are using multiple jdk's by any chance (ex. SDKMAN), then make sure that jconsole is run using the same jdk as the application