Which Java Profiling tool do you use and which tool you think is the best?

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Want to know what the stackoverflow community feels about the various free and non-free Java Profilers and profiling tools available.

You may find some help here: ["If you have a Java application that is consuming CPU when it isn’t doing anything how do you determine what it is doing?"](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12927/if-you-have-a-java-application-that-is-consuming-cpu-when-it-isnt-doing-anythin) — Chris Kimpton, Oct 08 '08 at 06:59

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '08 at 06:51

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JProfiler works very well for us.

answered Oct 08 '08 at 06:51

cagcowboy

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 08 '08 at 08:07

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Yourkit is pretty good for CPU analysis.

For memory usage analsis using heap dumps use http://www.eclipse.org/mat/

answered Oct 08 '08 at 08:07

kohlerm

+1 for YourKit which I've also used, mainly for CPU profiling – Jonik Feb 10 '09 at 17:23

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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You ask what do we use.

Tools are fine, but for finding time-tumors, frankly I've seen nothing that works better than this.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

Community

answered Jul 21 '09 at 23:35

Mike Dunlavey

that is equivalent to cpu sampling – Seun Osewa Nov 21 '09 at 23:49
@Seun: They do not all sample the stack. For those that sample the stack, they do not all do it on wall-clock time. For those that do sample the stack on wall-clock time, they do not all present the results in the most useful way. Rather they only summarize over functions and the call graph. Here is a case study and more detailed explanation of the method: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/926266/performance-optimization-strategies-of-last-resort/927773#927773 – Mike Dunlavey Nov 22 '09 at 01:11

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