# Advanced Usage

## Basic

- [help](help.md) - display Arthas help
- [cls](cls.md) - clear the screen
- [cat](cat.md) - Concatenate and print files
- [echo](echo.md) - write arguments to the standard output
- [grep](grep.md) - Pattern searcher
- [base64](base64.md) - Encode and decode using Base64 representation.
- [tee](tee.md) - Copies standard input to standard output, making a copy in zero or more files.
- [pwd](pwd.md) - Return working directory name
- [session](session.md) - display current session information
- [reset](reset.md) - reset all the enhanced classes. All enhanced classes will also be reset when Arthas server is closed by `stop`
- [version](version.md) - print the version for the Arthas attached to the current Java process
- [history](history.md) - view command history
- [quit/exit](quit.md) - exit the current Arthas session, without effecting other sessions
- [stop](stop.md) - terminate the Arthas server, all Arthas sessions will be destroyed
- [keymap](keymap.md) - keymap for Arthas keyboard shortcut

## JVM

- [dashboard](dashboard.md) - dashboard for the system's real-time data
- [thread](thread.md) - show java thread information
- [jvm](jvm.md) - show JVM information
- [sysprop](sysprop.md) - view/modify system properties
- [sysenv](sysenv.md) — view system environment variables
- [vmoption](vmoption.md) - view/modify the vm diagnostic options.
- [perfcounter](perfcounter.md) - show JVM Perf Counter information
- [logger](logger.md) - print the logger information, update the logger level
- [getstatic](getstatic.md) - examine class's static properties
- [ognl](ognl.md) - execute ognl expression
- [mbean](mbean.md) - show Mbean information
- [heapdump](heapdump.md) - dump java heap in hprof binary format, like `jmap`
- [vmtool](vmtool.md) - jvm tool, getInstances in jvm, forceGc

## class/classloader

- [sc](sc.md) - check the info for the classes loaded by JVM
- [sm](sm.md) - check methods info for the loaded classes
- [jad](jad.md) - decompile the specified loaded classes
- [mc](mc.md) - Memory compiler, compiles `.java` files into `.class` files in memory
- [retransform](retransform.md) - load external `*.class` files and retransform it into JVM
- [redefine](redefine.md) - load external `*.class` files and re-define it into JVM
- [dump](dump.md) - dump the loaded classes in byte code to the specified location
- [classloader](classloader.md) - check the inheritance structure, urls, class loading info for the specified class; using classloader to get the url of the resource e.g. `java/lang/String.class`

## monitor/watch/trace - related

::: warning
**Attention**: commands here are taking advantage of byte-code-injection, which means we are injecting some [aspects](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming) into the current classes for monitoring and statistics purpose. Therefore, when using it for online troubleshooting in your production environment, you'd better **explicitly specify** classes/methods/criteria, and remember to remove the injected code by `stop` or `reset`.
:::

- [monitor](monitor.md) - monitor method execution statistics
- [watch](watch.md) - display the input/output parameter, return object, and thrown exception of specified method invocation
- [trace](trace.md) - trace the execution time of specified method invocation
- [stack](stack.md) - display the stack trace for the specified class and method
- [tt](tt.md) - time tunnel, record the arguments and returned value for the methods and replay

## authentication

- [auth](auth.md) - authentication

## options

- [options](options.md) - check/set Arthas global options

## profiler/flame graph

- [profiler](profiler.md) - use [async-profiler](https://github.com/jvm-profiling-tools/async-profiler) to generate flame graph

## pipe

Arthas provides `pipe` to process the result returned from commands further, e.g. `sm java.lang.String * | grep 'index'`. Commands supported in `pipe`:

- grep - filter the result with the given keyword
- plaintext - remove the ANSI color
- wc - count lines

## async jobs

[async](async.md) can be handy when a problem is hardly to reproduce in the production environment, e.g. one `watch` condition may happen only once in one single day.

- job control - use `>` to redirect result into the log file, use `&` to put the job to the background. Job keeps running even if the session is disconnected (the session lifecycle is 1 day by default)
- jobs - list all jobs
- kill - forcibly terminate the job
- fg - bring the suspend job to the foreground
- bg - put the job to run in the background

## Web Console

Arthas supports living inside a browser. The communication between arthas and browser is via websocket.

- [Web Console](web-console.md)

## Arthas Properties

- [Arthas Properties](arthas-properties.md)

## Start as a Java Agent

- [Start as a Java Agent](agent.md)

## as.sh and arthas-boot tips

- Select the process to be attached via the `select` option.

Normally, `as.sh`/`arthas-boot.jar` needs to a pid, bacause the pid will change.

For example, with `math-game.jar` already started, use the `jps` command to see.

```bash
$ jps
58883 math-game.jar
58884 Jps
```

The `select` option allows you to specify a process name, which is very convenient.

```bash
$ ./as.sh --select math-game
Arthas script version: 3.3.6
[INFO] JAVA_HOME: /tmp/java/8.0.222-zulu
Arthas home: /Users/admin/.arthas/lib/3.3.6/arthas
Calculating attach execution time...
Attaching to 59161 using version /Users/admin/.arthas/lib/3.3.6/arthas...

real	0m0.572s
user	0m0.281s
sys	0m0.039s
Attach success.
telnet connecting to arthas server... current timestamp is 1594280799
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
  ,---.  ,------. ,--------.,--.  ,--.  ,---.   ,---.
 /  O  \ |  .--. ''--.  .--'|  '--'  | /  O  \ '   .-'
|  .-.  ||  '--'.'   |  |   |  .--.  ||  .-.  |`.  `-.
|  | |  ||  |\  \    |  |   |  |  |  ||  | |  |.-'    |
`--' `--'`--' '--'   `--'   `--'  `--'`--' `--'`-----'


wiki      https://arthas.aliyun.com/doc
tutorials https://arthas.aliyun.com/doc/arthas-tutorials.html
version   3.3.6
pid       58883
```

## User data report

After the `3.1.4` version, arthas support user data report.

At startup, use the `stat-url` option, such as: `./as.sh --stat-url 'http://192.168.10.11:8080/api/stat'`

There is a sample data report in the tunnel server that users can implement on their own.

[StatController.java](https://github.com/alibaba/arthas/blob/master/tunnel-server/src/main/java/com/alibaba/arthas/tunnel/server/app/web/StatController.java)