Ever had a Java application mysteriously slow to a crawl or crash without warning? If you've spent hours digging through log files trying to figure out what went wrong, you're not alone. The JVM is like a black box sometimes - things happen inside it that aren't immediately visible from the outside. You might see the symptoms (slow response times, high CPU usage), but finding the root cause can feel like searching for a needle in a digital haystack. That's where JMX metrics come in. Java Man...