Know of any Java garbage collection log analysis tools? [closed]

I'm looking for a tool or a script that will take the console log from my web app, parse out the garbage collection information and display it in a meaningful way.

I'm starting up on a Sun Java 1.4.2 JVM with the following flags:

-verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails

The log output looks like this:

54.736: [Full GC 54.737: [Tenured: 172798K->18092K(174784K), 2.3792658 secs] 257598K->18092K(259584K), [Perm : 20476K->20476K(20480K)], 2.4715398 secs]

Making sense of a few hundred of these kinds of log entries would be much easier if I had a tool that would visually graph garbage collection trends.

gcviewer does what you want.

IBM's GC toolkit does exactly what you ask.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/tools/gcmv/

I'm not sure if it's compatible with GC logs from Sun's JVM though.

I think some people are adding Java probes which don't really parse garbage collection logs as the question states...

I've tried others (gcviewer, gchisto, IBM's) and the best tool I found for analyzing GC logs is HPjmeter

It is mainly for HP-UX JVMs, but it also usually works with Sun JVMs and does a great job.

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I tried a online tool http://gceasy.io , it can read my sun jdk 1.8 gc log.

Even better than jconsole is visualvm, which is developed and distributed freely by Sun. It has a GC analyzing plugin called gchisto which might help you.

Edit: Sorry, I didn't see your JDK 1.4.2 requirement. In that case visualvm won't help you, alas.