1.6 KiB
1.6 KiB
perfix
Pretty basic profiling tool for JVM's
Highlights:
- Meant for development time (after process stops, data is gone).
- Minimal memory footprint (agent < 1 mb).
- Easy setup (2 commandline arguments for java process)
- Minimalistic web interface.
- Execution time is measured in nanoseconds
- No manual instrumentation necessary using loadtime bytecode manipulation (javassist).
- No special jdbc configuration necessary (ie no wrapped jdbc driver).
- The agent is also the server (ui backend).
Usage
- Agent that instruments loaded classes: -javaagent:/perfix.jar
- Include classes for instrumentation with -Dperfix.includes=com.project. ...etc (includes subpackages)
- Web page to report executed methods and sql query excutions:
* #invocations
* total execution time for the method in nanoseconds (this is also the sorting order)
* average time in nanoseconds per method (= total/#invocations) - The backend starts on port 2048 by default. Use -Dperfix.port=... to adjust.
- Start the UI using npm install followed by npm start. the UI starts on port 3000 by default.
roadmap
- Overhead (in method execution time) not clear yet. I wouldn't use it in production.
- Finish jdbc query logging (CallableStatement)
- Implement an actual call stack the way commercial tools work
- Ability to dynamically turn off metrics to minimize cpu and memory overhead (when response time is below a set treshold)
- extend the user interface
DISCLAIMER:
This has only been tested on oracle java8 in spring-boot using tomcat web-container
