Programmatically run jstack?

[tomlarkworthy]

Wondering if you had any tips for running jstack without command line access from the JVM? Its somewhat cumbersome to get shell to cloud JVMs like GCP, I'd rather expose a secured end point.

[stevegury]

If you want to do this, it would be better to use something like: twitter's util library, c.f. https://github.com/twitter/util/blob/master/util-jvm/src/main/scala/com/twitter/jvm/CpuProfile.scala#L110
It can export CPU profiling in Google perftools format.