How to create a VisualVM Plugin Repository?

A VisualVM repository is a link to a .xml.gz file with metadata about where plugins are located.

You can store these files in a generic repo and point your VisualVM instance to it.

For example, what we tried out was downloading one of the official Plugin Center files (https://visualvm.github.io/pluginscenters.html), saving it with the name test.xml.gz, and then uploading it to a generic repository we called "test-generic-visualvm-local"

From this, we obtained a URL of the format: http://<ArtifactoryURL>:<Port>/artifactory/test-generic-visualvm-local/test.xml.gz
Then we went to VisualVM –> Tools –> Plugins –> Settings –> Add and used this URL.

​​​​​​​Now VisualVM gets information about available plugins from this file. If the file were replaced with an updated one, VisualVM should be able to see the newly available plugins.