# Plans for Viewing Heap Snapshots?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plans-for-viewing-heap-snapshots/98696>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Created:** [May 11, 2023, 5:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plans-for-viewing-heap-snapshots/98696 "2023-05-11T17:27:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![TI36XPro](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ti36xpro/32/33658_2.png) [@TI36XPro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TI36XPro)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plans-for-viewing-heap-snapshots/98696/2 "2023-12-10T15:16:39Z")

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I just saw that VSCode has added the ability to view [heap snapshots natively](https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_85#_javascript-debugger). It is presented in the context of a JS debugger though.

Is there any possibility to leverage this to view [Julia generated heap snapshots](https://julialang.org/blog/2023/04/julia-1.9-highlights/#heap_snapshot) within VSCode?  
I just tried but I get an error when trying to open the `.heapsnapshot` file that says `Error: invalid profile JSON`.

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