Get a list of all threads currently running in Java

Question

To get an iterable set:

Set<Thread> threadSet = Thread.getAllStackTraces().keySet();

Performance: 0 ms for 12 threads (Azul JVM 16.0.1, Windows 10, Ryzen 5600X).

Get a handle to the root ThreadGroup, like this:

ThreadGroup rootGroup = Thread.currentThread().getThreadGroup();
ThreadGroup parentGroup;
while ((parentGroup = rootGroup.getParent()) != null) {
    rootGroup = parentGroup;
}

Now, call the enumerate() function on the root group repeatedly. The second argument lets you get all threads, recursively:

Thread[] threads = new Thread[rootGroup.activeCount()];
while (rootGroup.enumerate(threads, true ) == threads.length) {
    threads = new Thread[threads.length * 2];
}

Note how we call enumerate() repeatedly until the array is large enough to contain all entries.

Yes, take a look at getting a list of threads. Lots of examples on that page.

That's to do it programmatically. If you just want a list on Linux at least you can just use this command:

kill -3 processid

and the VM will do a thread dump to stdout.

You can get a lot of information about threads from the ThreadMXBean.

Call the static ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean() method to get a reference to the MBean.

Have you taken a look at jconsole?

This will list all threads running for a particular Java process.

You can start jconsole from the JDK bin folder.

You can also get a full stack trace for all threads by hitting Ctrl+Break in Windows or by sending kill pid --QUIT in Linux.

You can try something like this:

Thread.getAllStackTraces().keySet().forEach((t) -> System.out.println(t.getName() + "\nIs Daemon " + t.isDaemon() + "\nIs Alive " + t.isAlive()));

and you can obviously get more thread characteristic if you need.