Last update: August 13, 2020
Java Flight Recorder
Java Flight Recorder(JFR) is a monitoring tools that collects information about the Java Virtual Machine(JVM) when Hyperledger Besu is running. Use the JFR as a tool to analyse Besu performance.
Enabling Java Flight Recorder
To enable JFR, add the following to the Java runtime arguments:
-XX:StartFlightRecording=disk=true,delay=15s,dumponexit=true, \
filename=/tmp/recording.jfr, maxsize=1024m,maxage=1d, \
settings=profile,path-to-gc-roots=true
Tip
When recording, cleanly exiting Besu results in better data. If not possible to cleanly exit, the file may be missing some information not flushed to disk.
Inspect the file written to /tmp/recording.jfr
with tools such as Mission Control.
Important
If providing the output file to PegaSys support, be aware that while JFR files do not contain secrets such as private keys, some details about the user configuration can be inferred from the JFR output.