Quick Start Guide for Users

Version 1.3.0 and later

1. Install the latest Chrome or Firefox browser.
2. Follow the instructions for a deployment via Docker and apply a docker-compose.yml configuration for a specific version, e.g., 1.5.0.

Start monitoring an application

• A fully instrumented sample Java application can be found here.
• In order to instrument your own application, take a look at the configuration options.

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Version 1.1.1 and earlier

1. Download a release version.
2. Put the ROOT.war into your application server (e.g., Apache Tomcat).
3. Add the explorviz-monitoring.jar to your application's lib folder.
4. Locally start your application with the additional parameter -javaagent:lib/explorviz-monitoring.jar.
5. Open http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your HTML5 compatible browser (e.g., Chrome). As default, ExplorViz monitors all method calls. You might want to configure the monitoring beforehand as described in Monitoring Configuration.