Having taken a dive on some memory issues with Java, the tools that you have at your disposal are quite nice, actually. https://www.yourkit.com/java/profiler/features/ shows roughly what the memory charts look like.

So, yeah, if your want is to inspect using the host language, I can see how this makes sense. That said, as you noted in the post, you really just want to get to the root asap. Which is why most visualizations will start from there. :D