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Java Flight Recorder as an Observability Tool

JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) is one of the best sources of telemetry and monitoring data for the JVM. However, it has not achieved particularly widespread usage - many Java engineers do not use it regularly and those that do frequently only use it via the Mission Control (JMC) GUI tool.

In this talk, Ben Evans explains recent developments with JFR, and discusses how tooling based on JFR fits into the growing field known as Observability and some of the ongoing F/OSS work and standards in this space.


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Ben Evans

Java Champion, Author of "Java in a Nutshell"

Ben Evans is Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. Previously, he was Lead Architect for Instrumentation at New Relic. He also co-founded jClarity, a JVM performance optimization company (acquired by Microsoft in 2019). He is a former member of the JCP Executive Committee, and helped...

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Date

Monday Apr 4 / 10:35AM BST (50 minutes)

Location

Whittle, 3rd flr.

Track

Performance & Mechanical Sympathy

Topics

JavaObservabilityPerformance

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