Quick Start

1. Start Demo Application

wget https://alibaba.github.io/arthas/arthas-demo.jar
java -jar arthas-demo.jar

arthas-demo is a simple program that generates a random number every second, then find all prime factors of the number.

The source code of arthas-demo: View

2. Start Arthas

Linux/Unix/Mac

Execute the following command in the command line:

wget https://alibaba.github.io/arthas/arthas-boot.jar
java -jar arthas-boot.jar
  • The user to run this command MUST have the same privilege as the owner of the target process, as a simple example you can try the following command if the target process is managed by user admin: sudo su admin && java -jar arthas-boot.jar or sudo -u admin -EH java -jar arthas-boot.jar
  • .If you cannot be able to attach to the target process, please check the logs under ~/logs/arthas for troubleshooting.
  • java -jar arthas-boot.jar -h print usage.

Select the target Java process to attach:

$ $ java -jar arthas-boot.jar
* [1]: 35542
  [2]: 71560 arthas-demo.jar

The ‘Demo’ process is the fourth as shown above, press ‘2’ then ‘Enter’. Arthas will attach to the target process, and start to output:

[INFO] Try to attach process 71560
[INFO] Attach process 71560 success.
[INFO] arthas-client connect 127.0.0.1 3658
  ,---.  ,------. ,--------.,--.  ,--.  ,---.   ,---.
 /  O  \ |  .--. ''--.  .--'|  '--'  | /  O  \ '   .-'
|  .-.  ||  '--'.'   |  |   |  .--.  ||  .-.  |`.  `-.
|  | |  ||  |\  \    |  |   |  |  |  ||  | |  |.-'    |
`--' `--'`--' '--'   `--'   `--'  `--'`--' `--'`-----'

wiki: https://alibaba.github.io/arthas
version: 3.0.5.20181127201536
pid: 71560
time: 2018-11-28 19:16:24

$

3. Check the Dashboard

Type ‘dashboard’ and hit ‘ENTER’, a brief report on the current process will be shown as below, pls. Ctrl+C to stop:

$ dashboard
ID     NAME                   GROUP          PRIORI STATE  %CPU    TIME   INTERRU DAEMON
17     pool-2-thread-1        system         5      WAITIN 67      0:0    false   false
27     Timer-for-arthas-dashb system         10     RUNNAB 32      0:0    false   true
11     AsyncAppender-Worker-a system         9      WAITIN 0       0:0    false   true
9      Attach Listener        system         9      RUNNAB 0       0:0    false   true
3      Finalizer              system         8      WAITIN 0       0:0    false   true
2      Reference Handler      system         10     WAITIN 0       0:0    false   true
4      Signal Dispatcher      system         9      RUNNAB 0       0:0    false   true
26     as-command-execute-dae system         10     TIMED_ 0       0:0    false   true
13     job-timeout            system         9      TIMED_ 0       0:0    false   true
1      main                   main           5      TIMED_ 0       0:0    false   false
14     nioEventLoopGroup-2-1  system         10     RUNNAB 0       0:0    false   false
18     nioEventLoopGroup-2-2  system         10     RUNNAB 0       0:0    false   false
23     nioEventLoopGroup-2-3  system         10     RUNNAB 0       0:0    false   false
15     nioEventLoopGroup-3-1  system         10     RUNNAB 0       0:0    false   false
Memory             used   total max    usage GC
heap               32M    155M  1820M  1.77% gc.ps_scavenge.count  4
ps_eden_space      14M    65M   672M   2.21% gc.ps_scavenge.time(m 166
ps_survivor_space  4M     5M    5M           s)
ps_old_gen         12M    85M   1365M  0.91% gc.ps_marksweep.count 0
nonheap            20M    23M   -1           gc.ps_marksweep.time( 0
code_cache         3M     5M    240M   1.32% ms )
Runtime
os.name                Mac OS X
os.version             10.13.4
java.version           1.8.0_162
java.home              /Library/Java/JavaVir
                       tualMachines/jdk1.8.0
                       _162.jdk/Contents/Hom
                       e/jre

4. Get the Main Class of the process with the sysenv command

$ sysenv | grep MAIN
 JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_71560              demo.MathGame

5. Decompile Main Class with jad command

$ jad demo.MathGame

ClassLoader:
+-sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@3d4eac69
  +-sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader@66350f69

Location:
/tmp/arthas-demo.jar

/*
 * Decompiled with CFR 0_132.
 */
package demo;

import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class MathGame {
    private static Random random = new Random();
    private int illegalArgumentCount = 0;

    public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
        MathGame game = new MathGame();
        do {
            game.run();
            TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(1L);
        } while (true);
    }

    public void run() throws InterruptedException {
        try {
            int number = random.nextInt();
            List<Integer> primeFactors = this.primeFactors(number);
            MathGame.print(number, primeFactors);
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(String.format("illegalArgumentCount:%3d, ", this.illegalArgumentCount) + e.getMessage());
        }
    }

    public static void print(int number, List<Integer> primeFactors) {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("" + number + "=");
        Iterator<Integer> iterator = primeFactors.iterator();
        while (iterator.hasNext()) {
            int factor = iterator.next();
            sb.append(factor).append('*');
        }
        if (sb.charAt(sb.length() - 1) == '*') {
            sb.deleteCharAt(sb.length() - 1);
        }
        System.out.println(sb);
    }

    public List<Integer> primeFactors(int number) {
        if (number < 2) {
            ++this.illegalArgumentCount;
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("number is: " + number + ", need >= 2");
        }
        ArrayList<Integer> result = new ArrayList<Integer>();
        int i = 2;
        while (i <= number) {
            if (number % i == 0) {
                result.add(i);
                number /= i;
                i = 2;
                continue;
            }
            ++i;
        }
        return result;
    }
}

Affect(row-cnt:1) cost in 970 ms.

6. watch

Use ‘watch’ to view the return object of demo.MathGame#primeFactors:

$ watch demo.MathGame primeFactors returnObj
Press Ctrl+C to abort.
Affect(class-cnt:1 , method-cnt:1) cost in 107 ms.
ts=2018-11-28 19:22:30; [cost=1.715367ms] result=null
ts=2018-11-28 19:22:31; [cost=0.185203ms] result=null
ts=2018-11-28 19:22:32; [cost=19.012416ms] result=@ArrayList[
    @Integer[5],
    @Integer[47],
    @Integer[2675531],
]
ts=2018-11-28 19:22:33; [cost=0.311395ms] result=@ArrayList[
    @Integer[2],
    @Integer[5],
    @Integer[317],
    @Integer[503],
    @Integer[887],
]
ts=2018-11-28 19:22:34; [cost=10.136007ms] result=@ArrayList[
    @Integer[2],
    @Integer[2],
    @Integer[3],
    @Integer[3],
    @Integer[31],
    @Integer[717593],
]
ts=2018-11-28 19:22:35; [cost=29.969732ms] result=@ArrayList[
    @Integer[5],
    @Integer[29],
    @Integer[7651739],
]

Pls. refer to advanced usages for more information.

7. Exit Arthas

Use quit or exit to disconnect from the current process. The Arthas instance attached to the target process continues to live inside the process, and its port is standby for further connection.

Use shutdown to have Arthas completely quit from the target process.