How to take thread dump

Below instructions are to take thread dump for Weblogic Application server, this is helpful to troubleshoot weblogic at various scenario.

Windows : -

ctrl+break key

UNIX : -

1. Get PID of weblogic java process by (ps -ef | grep java or ps -ef | grep weblogic)

2. execute command on UNIX session :  kill -3 pid

Weblogic Admin utility (my favorite) : -

1. Make sure you export weblogic.jar in your path

2. execute command on UNIX session : java weblogic.Admin -url t3://weblogicadminconsoleurl:7001 -username username -password password THREAD_DUMP

1. Login into weblogic admin console

2. Navigate to Server > Monitoring > Threads > Dump Thread Stacks

1. Make sure to export weblogic.jar in your PATH

2. Invoke weblogic.WLST :

java weblogic.WLST

connect("weblogic","weblogic","t3:\\weblogicinstaceaddress:port")

threadDump()