Unable to run VisualVM with Intellij or commandline

Question

I downloaded visualvm 2.0.6 (currently latest) on windows.
I tried making the following attempts:

Integrating VisualVM with Intellij IDEA.

1. I installed VisualVM Launcher plugin.
2. Set the VisualVM executable path bin/visualvm.exe

• Executing Run
  

1. VisualVM window opens up.
2. My program completed execution.
3. VisualVm shows this error: can not open requested application
4. Tried all solutions from this stackoverflow post.

• Executing Debug
  

1. VisualVM window opens up.
2. I can see my application inside the Application node.
3. Visualvm freezes completely and I cannot click/open my application to profile it. I had to end the task from the task manager.

Commandline way

After seeing no results from above, I tried to run my application normally using the command line.

1. Opened visualvm.exe.
2. Opened cmd, and executed the regular java command:

   java -classpath "path/to/all/jars/dependencies/" main.Main
   

3. Program completed execution, but visualvm didn't show anything.

Other solutions from StackOverflow posts:

All the following didn't work:

• Gave full access to folder %temp%/hsperfdata_<username>. [post]
• Deleted %temp%/hsperfdata_<username> and closed all java applications, restarted VisualVM (which recreated the hsperfdata folder), and tried again. [post]
• Explicitly tried to set the java.io.tmpdir while running VisualVm. [post]

  visualvm -J-Djava.io.tmpdir=[path/to/hsperfdata_<username>] 
  

• Tried opening Intellij & cmd as administrators and run visualvm. [post]

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Is there any step/process I am missing?
If any more information is required, let me know.
Shall I try any other open-source alternative for VisualVM?