VisualVM: CPU/Memory profiler stuck at “Connecting to the target JVM…”

Question

I have recently reinstalled Windows and I am using JDK 1.8 u91 with the built-in VisualVM. I have checked my proxy settings to ensure that they are all off, both in Windows prox

Answer 1

Try starting the (local) application to observe with additional:

-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=localhost