- System requirements
- Profiler architecture
- Running the profiler
- Profiler activation
- Start profiling
- IDE integration
- Eclipse
- Completing Eclipse 3.4 - 2021-12 plugin installation
- Completing MyEclipse 2014 or newer plugin installation
- IntelliJ IDEA
- JDeveloper
- NetBeans
- Java server integration wizard
- Attach profiler to a running application
- Remote profiling
- Docker
- Enabling profiling manually
- Startup options
- Connect to profiled application
- Profiling troubleshooting
- Profiling overhead: how to reduce or avoid
- Solving performance problems
- CPU profiling
- Threads
- Deadlock detector
- Memory profiling
- Garbage collection
- Monitor profiling
- Exception profiling
- Probes: monitor events of various kinds
- Performance Charts
- Inspections: automatic recognition of typical problems
- Automatically trigger actions on event
- Summary, snapshot annotation, automatic deobfuscation
- Time measurement (CPU time, wall time)
- Filters
- Snapshot directory customization
- Export of profiling results to HTML, CSV, XML, plain text
- Profiler Java API
- Profiler HTTP API
- Command line tool to control profiling
- Settings
- FAQ: How to profile in my scenario?
Eclipse
Plugin installation
To enable integration, you should install the profiler plugin.
To install the plugin, run the profiler.
Use Profile from within IDE... action on Welcome screen or in "Tools" menu, select "Eclipse" or "MyEclipse".
The wizard will open instructions in your browser. Please follow them to complete the plugin installation:
Profiling from Eclipse
After the plugin is installed, Profile actions appear in the toolbar ...
... in the main menu ...
... and in context menus.
Additional launch parameters can be configured with Run | Profile..., tab YourKit Java Profiler.
The Profile action starts the profiled application, and connects to it in profiler UI (unless opposite behavior is configured). The output of the profiled application appears in console, same as for Run action.
JVM architecture selection
This topic is not applicable to macOS where the profiler agent a universal binary.
On a 64-bit machine, the Profile action must know whether the JVM for launching the profiled application is 32-bit or 64-bit, in order to supply appropriate profiler agent version.
By default, the plugin attempts to automatically detect the JVM kind by obtaining available information from Eclipse.
For particular run configurations this may happen that the automatic detection is not possible.
In this case Profile will fail with an error like
Error occurred during initialization of VM. Could not find agent library
printed in the Eclipse console.
In this case use the "JVM architecture selection" section to specify the architecture explicitly.
Navigation action
While profiling, you usually need to browse the related source code to understand the performance problems at hands. After the problem is located, you edit the source code to fix it.
Use Tools | Open in IDE (F7) to open the underlying source code in the editor of your IDE - the best place to browse and edit code.
The navigation action works on the current selection and is available in both CPU and memory views. Take note of the extremely useful ability to locate the code of anonymous classes and their methods, which is a very difficult thing to do manually.
