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

You might need to enable jmx ports on your app. Try adding these switches to your VM and see if the tabs appear again:

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=6789 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false