Quick Start Guide for Users

Version 1.2.0 and later (latest version)

1. Install the latest Chrome or Firefox browser.
2. Start a server on which ExplorViz should run (a fully-configured docker container can be found here).
3. Start monitoring an (Java) application
   1. A sample application can be found here.
   2. To instrument your own application, the fundamental monitoring set up can be found here.

Version 1.1.1 and earlier

1. Download the latest release.
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.