jfrv

Web based Java Flight Recorder (JFR) file viewer.

Live demo: https://ocadaruma.github.io/jfrv

Usage

• Take wallclock profile of your application by async-profiler
  • $ /path/to/profiler.sh -e wall -t -f result.jfr -d 30 $PID
• Open the profile in jfrv

Runs on browsers

jfrv parses JFR files 100% on browsers using wasm-compiled Rust JFR reader jfrs.

Motivation

There are various profiling tools for Java applications. The most widely used ones seem Java Flight Recorder (JFR) and async-profiler.

Though both are designed to be low-overhead so that can be run in the production environment, in my experience,async-profiler is much more efficient and safe to run even against high-load streaming middleware (like Kafka) without notable impact.

async-profiler supports output profiles in JFR-compatible format which contains per-thread samples with stack traces when the sample was recorded, so we can use it to check a very detailed threads timeline that greatly helps to investigate performance issues (particularly when the issue is due to contention between the threads).

However, existing JFR viewers seem to be not suitable for generating threads timeline of async-profiler-recorded files, so I needed another tool.

Build

To build and run jfrv locally, execute below commands and visit localhost:8080.

# activate emsdk
$ source /path/to/emsdk/emsdk_env.sh
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ make -C duckdb-jfr-extension duckdb-wasm
$ yarn install --install-links
$ yarn serve