Built-in SVG generator

v1.2

Features

• Produce SVG files out of the box; flamegraph.pl is no longer needed
• Profile ReentrantLock contention
• Java API

Improvements

• Allocation and Lock profiler now works on JDK 7, too
• Faster dumping of results

Changes

• total counter of allocation profiler now measures heap pressure (like JMC)

Perf Events support

v1.1

Features

• Linux Perf Events profiling: CPU cycles, cache misses, branch misses, page faults, context switches etc.
• Kernel tracepoints support
• Contended monitor (aka intrinsic lock) profiling
• Individual thread profiles

Improvements

• Profiler can engage at JVM start and automatically dump results on exit
• list command-line option to list supported events
• Automatically find target process ID with jps tool
• An option to include counter value in collapsed output
• Friendly class names in allocation profile
• Split allocations in new TLAB vs. outside TLAB

Changes

• Replaced -m modes with -e events
• Interval changed from int to long

First binary release

v1.0

The first release of accurate CPU and Allocation profiler for Java.

Features:

• Flamegraph compatible output
• macOS port
• Linux containers support