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JFR Visualization
JFR recordings produced by async-profiler can be viewed using multiple options explained below.
Built-in converter
async-profiler provides a built-in converter jfrconv which can be used to convert jfr output
to a flame graph or one of the other supported formats. More details on the built-in converter usage
can be found here.
JMC
JDK Mission Control (JMC) is a popular GUI tool to analyze JFR recordings. It has been originally developed to work in conjunction with the JDK Flight Recorder, however, async-profiler recordings are also fully compatible with JMC.
When viewing async-profiler recordings in JMC, information on some tabs may be missing. Developers are typically interested in the following sections:
- Java Application
- Method Profiling
- Memory
- Lock Instances
- JVM Internals
- TLAB Allocations
IntelliJ IDEA
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate has built-in JFR viewer that works perfectly with async-profiler recordings. For the Community Edition, there is an open-source profiler plugin that allows you to profile Java applications with JFR and async-profiler as well as open JFR files obtained outside IDE.
JFR command line tool
JDK distributions include the jfr command line utility to filter, summarize and output
flight recording files into human-readable format. The
official documentation
provides complete information on how to manipulate the contents and translate it as per
developers' needs to debug performance issues with their Java applications.