Installation in 2 steps

1: Get PerformanceMonster

Download the newest version. This includes source code and lots of other stuff. If you just want to use PerformanceMonster, unzip the file and throw away everything except the "release" directory. From now on this directory will be referred to as "the PerformanceMonster release directory".

Older releases of PerformanceMonster are available in the archive section.

2: Edit start-up script

In the PerformanceMonster release directory, there is a "performancemonster.sh" script for Unix/Linux users and a "performancemonster.bat" script for Windows users. If the version of Java pointed to by the JAVA_HOME environment variable is not Java 6 or newer, or if you want to change the port on which PerformanceMonster will listen, you should open the script relevant to you and edit it.

That's it!

Just start PerformanceMonster by invoking the "performancemonster.sh" (for Unix/Linux users) or "performancemonster.bat" (for Windows users) in the PerformanceMonster release directory.

Archive

Older versions of PerformanceMonster are available here.

• Version 0.10 (December 30, 2006): Full distribution with source code. New'n'hot: C# stub, timeline, inclusion of third-party libraries, XML interface for profiling, upgrade to Java 6, lots and lots of other small bug fixes and additions.
• Version 0.9 (January 16, 2006): Full distribution with source code. New'n'hot: Added .sh and .bat files for starting PerformanceMonster.
• Version 0.8 (January 7, 2006): Full distribution with source code. New'n'hot: Remade GUI, using VLDocking, simple call graph, accumulated call graph, highlighting.
• Version 0.7 (October 23, 2005): Full distribution with source code. New'n'hot: Performance optimization of instrumentation, allowed for begin and end log messages where space separates the message from the extra arguments, fixed problem with sorting the messages under stress.
• Version 0.6 (October 6, 2005): Full distribution with source code. New'n'hot: Lots of internal changes, and proper view of stack traces.
• Version 0.5 (September 4, 2005): Full distribution with source code. New'n'hot: Coloring of graphs, including export and import of coloring rules.
• Version 0.4 (August 8, 2005): Full distribution with source code. New'n'hot: Open/save of graph data.
• Version 0.3 (July 11, 2005): Full distribution with source code. New'n'hot: Forgot that the "-instrumentpath" argument could be handy, instead of hard-coding the path to "performancemonster.jar"...
• Version 0.2 (July 10, 2005): Full distribution with source code. New'n'hot: Instrumentation GUI and instrumentation agent.
• Version 0.1 (May 28, 2005): performancemonster.jar, source.zip.