Why isn't VisualVM showing all the normal tabs?

Question

Usually I see all these tabs in VisualVM for locally running Java programs:

Answer 1

I found that this was the issue of usage of wrong JDK version. In my case my application was running on 64bit JDK and I started VisualVM from 32bit JDK. After starting VisualVM from the same JDK on which my application is running, everything was fine. Hope it will help you.