Few months back I had to do performance optimisation of a low latency application. The tool that helped me a lot was Java Flight Recorder. Today, I had to do some similar work and I completely forgot how I was able to launch flight recorder GUI. In this short post, I will show you the process that I followed to create flight recorder recordings.
From the official documentation,
Java Flight Recorder (JFR) is a tool for collecting diagnostic and profiling data about a running Java application. It is integrated into the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and causes almost no performance overhead, so it can be used even in heavily loaded production environments. When default settings are used, both internal testing and customer feedback indicate that performance impact is less than one percent. For some applications, it can be significantly lower. However, for short-running applications (which are not the kind of applications running in production environments), relative startup and warmup times can be larger, which might impact the performance by more than one percent. JFR collects data about the JVM as well as the Java application running on it.
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Shekhar Gulati 