Arthas
Arthas is a Java Diagnostic tool open sourced by Alibaba.
Arthas can help developer trouble-shoot production issues for Java applications without modifying your code or restarting your server.
中文说明 (For Chinese Documentation)
Background
In production system, sometimes the network is unreachable from local development environment. If you encounter some issues in production system, it is impossible to use IDE to debug the application remotely. More importantly, debugging in production is unacceptable, because it will suspend all the threads, which leads to business unavailability.
Some may think of reproducing the same issue on the test/staging environment. However, some tricky issues either can hardly be reproduced on a different environment, or even disappear once restarted.
Thinking of adding some logs to your code? You have to go through test, staging, and then on to production. Time is money! That is very inefficient! Besides, the issue may not be reproducible once you restart your JVM, as described above.
Arthas is born to solve these issues. You can trouble-shoot your production issue on-the-fly. No need for JVM restart, no additional code changes. Arthas works as an observer, which will never suspend your existing threads.
Key features
- Check whether a class is loaded? And where the class is loaded from? (Useful for trouble-shooting jar file conflicts)
- Decompile a class to ensure the code is running as expected.
- View classloader statistics, e.g. how may classloaders are there? How many classes are loaded per classloader? What is the classloader hierarchy? Are there possible classloader leaks?
- View the method invocation details, e.g. method parameter, return object, thrown exception, and etc.
- Check the stack trace of specified method invocation. This is useful when you would like to know who is calling your method.
- Trace the method invocation to find slow sub-invocations.
- Monitor method invcation statistics, e.g. qps, rt, success rate, etc.
- Monitoring your system metrics, thread states and cpu usage, gc statistics, etc.
- Support command line interactive mode, with auto complete feature enabled.
- Support telnet and websocket, which enables both local and remote diagnostics with command line and browsers.
Quick start
Linux/Unix/Mac
Install Arthas:
curl -L https://alibaba.github.io/arthas/install.sh | sh
Start Arthas:
./as.sh
Windows
- Click here to download the latest binary releases.
- Unzip the file.
- Go to the bin directory
- Run the following command
as.bat $PID
Documentation
English version is on the way, if you would like to contribute, please leave a message here
Feature Showcase
Dashboard
Thread
See what is eating your cpu (ranked by top cpu usage) and what is going on there in one glance:
$ thread -n 3
"as-command-execute-daemon" Id=29 cpuUsage=75% RUNNABLE
at sun.management.ThreadImpl.dumpThreads0(Native Method)
at sun.management.ThreadImpl.getThreadInfo(ThreadImpl.java:440)
at com.taobao.arthas.core.command.monitor200.ThreadCommand$1.action(ThreadCommand.java:58)
at com.taobao.arthas.core.command.handler.AbstractCommandHandler.execute(AbstractCommandHandler.java:238)
at com.taobao.arthas.core.command.handler.DefaultCommandHandler.handleCommand(DefaultCommandHandler.java:67)
at com.taobao.arthas.core.server.ArthasServer$4.run(ArthasServer.java:276)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Number of locked synchronizers = 1
- java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker@6cd0b6f8
"as-session-expire-daemon" Id=25 cpuUsage=24% TIMED_WAITING
at java.lang.Thread.sleep(Native Method)
at com.taobao.arthas.core.server.DefaultSessionManager$2.run(DefaultSessionManager.java:85)
"Reference Handler" Id=2 cpuUsage=0% WAITING on java.lang.ref.Reference$Lock@69ba0f27
at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
- waiting on java.lang.ref.Reference$Lock@69ba0f27
at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:503)
at java.lang.ref.Reference$ReferenceHandler.run(Reference.java:133)
jad
Decompile your class with one shot:
$ jad javax.servlet.Servlet
ClassLoader:
+-java.net.URLClassLoader@6108b2d7
+-sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@18b4aac2
+-sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader@1ddf84b8
Location:
/Users/xxx/work/test/lib/servlet-api.jar
/*
* Decompiled with CFR 0_122.
*/
package javax.servlet;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.ServletConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;
public interface Servlet {
public void init(ServletConfig var1) throws ServletException;
public ServletConfig getServletConfig();
public void service(ServletRequest var1, ServletResponse var2) throws ServletException, IOException;
public String getServletInfo();
public void destroy();
}sc
Search any loaded class with detailed infomation.
$ sc -d org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext
class-info org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext
code-source /Users/xxx/work/test/WEB-INF/lib/spring-web-3.2.11.RELEASE.jar
name org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext
isInterface false
isAnnotation false
isEnum false
isAnonymousClass false
isArray false
isLocalClass false
isMemberClass false
isPrimitive false
isSynthetic false
simple-name XmlWebApplicationContext
modifier public
annotation
interfaces
super-class +-org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext
+-org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableConfigApplicationContext
+-org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext
+-org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext
+-org.springframework.core.io.DefaultResourceLoader
+-java.lang.Object
class-loader +-org.apache.catalina.loader.ParallelWebappClassLoader
+-java.net.URLClassLoader@6108b2d7
+-sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@18b4aac2
+-sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader@1ddf84b8
classLoaderHash 25131501
stack
View the call stack of test.arthas.TestStack#doGet:
$ stack test.arthas.TestStack doGet
Press Ctrl+C to abort.
Affect(class-cnt:1 , method-cnt:1) cost in 286 ms.
ts=2018-09-18 10:11:45;thread_name=http-bio-8080-exec-10;id=d9;is_daemon=true;priority=5;TCCL=org.apache.catalina.loader.ParallelWebappClassLoader@25131501
@test.arthas.TestStack.doGet()
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:624)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:731)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:241)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:220)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:110)
...
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:169)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:116)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:451)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1121)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:637)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Trace
See what is slowing down your method invocation with trace command:
Watch
Watch the first parameter and thrown exception of test.arthas.TestWatch#doGet only if it throws exception.
$ watch test.arthas.TestWatch doGet {params[0], throwExp} -e
Press Ctrl+C to abort.
Affect(class-cnt:1 , method-cnt:1) cost in 65 ms.
ts=2018-09-18 10:26:28;result=@ArrayList[
@RequestFacade[org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade@79f922b2],
@NullPointerException[java.lang.NullPointerException],
]
Monitor
Monitor a specific method invoction statistics, including total number of invocations, avarage response time, success rate, every 5 seconds:
$ monitor -c 5 org.apache.dubbo.demo.provider.DemoServiceImpl sayHello
Press Ctrl+C to abort.
Affect(class-cnt:1 , method-cnt:1) cost in 109 ms.
timestamp class method total success fail avg-rt(ms) fail-rate
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2018-09-20 09:45:32 org.apache.dubbo.demo.provider.DemoServiceImpl sayHello 5 5 0 0.67 0.00%
timestamp class method total success fail avg-rt(ms) fail-rate
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2018-09-20 09:45:37 org.apache.dubbo.demo.provider.DemoServiceImpl sayHello 5 5 0 1.00 0.00%
timestamp class method total success fail avg-rt(ms) fail-rate
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2018-09-20 09:45:42 org.apache.dubbo.demo.provider.DemoServiceImpl sayHello 5 5 0 0.43 0.00%
Time Tunnel(tt)
Record method invocation data, so that you can check the method invacation parameters, returned value and thrown exception later. It works as if you could come back and replay the past method invocation via time tunnel.
$ tt -t org.apache.dubbo.demo.provider.DemoServiceImpl sayHello
Press Ctrl+C to abort.
Affect(class-cnt:1 , method-cnt:1) cost in 75 ms.
INDEX TIMESTAMP COST(ms) IS-RET IS-EXP OBJECT CLASS METHOD
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1000 2018-09-20 09:54:10 1.971195 true false 0x55965cca DemoServiceImpl sayHello
1001 2018-09-20 09:54:11 0.215685 true false 0x55965cca DemoServiceImpl sayHello
1002 2018-09-20 09:54:12 0.236303 true false 0x55965cca DemoServiceImpl sayHello
1003 2018-09-20 09:54:13 0.159598 true false 0x55965cca DemoServiceImpl sayHello
1004 2018-09-20 09:54:14 0.201982 true false 0x55965cca DemoServiceImpl sayHello
1005 2018-09-20 09:54:15 0.214205 true false 0x55965cca DemoServiceImpl sayHello
1006 2018-09-20 09:54:16 0.241863 true false 0x55965cca DemoServiceImpl sayHello
1007 2018-09-20 09:54:17 0.305747 true false 0x55965cca DemoServiceImpl sayHello
1008 2018-09-20 09:54:18 0.18468 true false 0x55965cca DemoServiceImpl sayHello
Classloader
$ classloader
name numberOfInstances loadedCountTotal
BootstrapClassLoader 1 3346
com.taobao.arthas.agent.ArthasClassloader 1 1262
java.net.URLClassLoader 2 1033
org.apache.catalina.loader.ParallelWebappClassLoader 1 628
sun.reflect.DelegatingClassLoader 166 166
sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader 1 31
com.alibaba.fastjson.util.ASMClassLoader 6 15
sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader 1 7
org.jvnet.hk2.internal.DelegatingClassLoader 2 2
sun.reflect.misc.MethodUtil 1 1
Web Console
Credit
- greys-anatomy: The Arthas code base has derived from Greys, we thank for the excellent work done by Greys.
- termd: Arthas's terminal implementation is based on termd, an open source library for writing terminal applications in Java.
- crash: Arthas's text based user interface rendering is based on codes extracted from here
- cli: Arthas's command line interface implementation is based on cli, open sourced by vert.x