VisualVM over ssh
You either need to run jstatd on the remote side, or specify a JMX connection using host:port. Jstatd: jstatd -J-Djava.security.policy=permissions.txt [-p port] After that: add a remote connection to the target machine, and on the properties of that remote connection configure the jstatd connection. (permissions.txt contains for example this: grant { permission java.security.AllPermission; }; Edit: … Read more