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`Arthas` is a Java diagnostic tool open-sourced by Alibaba middleware team. Arthas helps developers in trouble-shooting issues in production environment for Java based applications without modifying code or restarting servers.


This tutorial takes a simple application as an example to demonstrate the the usage of `vmtool`.

* Github: https://github.com/alibaba/arthas
* Docs: https://arthas.aliyun.com/doc/en