Help > Show Status Report

Displays the status report with useful information for troubleshooting and development.

To report an error in JOSM or to request a new feature please use always the Report bug form. It can be invoked in the Help menu or with the button in this dialog. This includes all needed technical information in the ticket. Bug reports and feature request are called tickets in JOSM.

The status report consists of the following sections:

Section	Description	Presence	Required in a bug report
1 Release	JOSM version details	Always	Yes
2 System	Operating system, Java, memory usage, screen size and command line options	Always	Yes
3 Dataset consistency	Consistency of the current data layer	If available	Yes, if available
4 Plugins	Installed Plugins	If available	Yes, if available
5 Tagging presets	Installed Presets	If available	Yes, if available
6 Map paint styles	Installed Styles	If available	Yes, if available
7 Validator Rules	Installed Rules	If available	Yes, if available
8 Last errors/warnings	Overview of last shown or hidden code errors/warnings of JOSM	If available	Yes, if available
9 Crash & Stack	Detailed info about the last JOSM code error	If available	Yes, if available
10 Preferences	Current settings	Always	No

The sections are not numbered in the report. Some may be empty.

2 System

Memory Usage: The first value is the size of the total memory currently used by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) including JOSM and garbage. The second value is the max. memory the JVM will try to use, a limit can be the -Xmx option. And the third value is the free memory in the JVM.

10 Preferences

To protect sensitive data this keys are stripped: username, password, access-token, file-open.history, download.overpass.query and download.overpass.queries.

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