Flight Recorder & Mission Control Training Course

This Java Mission Control training course provides a series of hands on exercises that use JVM Flight Recorder and a few other JDK profiling, monitoring and analysis tools.

These JMC and JFR tutorials comprise several hours worth of exercises, so some of the Java Mission Control examples have been marked as bonus exercises.

Java Mission Control Examples and Exercises

Here are the examples and exercises that will help you learn how to use Java Mission Control and Flight Recorder:

Introduction
Installing Mission Control
Starting JDK Mission Control
Exercise 1a – Starting the Stand-Alone Version of JMC
Exercise 1b – Starting JMC in Eclipse
The JDK Flight Recorder
Exercise 2a – Starting a JFR Recording
Exercise 2b – Hot Methods
Exercise 3 – Latencies
Exercise 4 (Bonus) – Garbage Collection Behavior
Exercise 5 (Bonus) – Memory Leaks
Exercise 6 (Bonus) – WebLogic Server Integration
Exercise 7 (Bonus) – JavaFX
Exercise 8 (Bonus) – Exceptions
Exercise 9 – Custom Events in JDK 9 (Bonus)
Exercise 10 – Custom Rules (Bonus)
JMC in JShell
Creating Rules
Exporting the rule
Exercise 11 – Custom Pages
Filters
Grouping
Boolean Filter Operations
The Management Console (Bonus)
Exercise 12a – The Overview
Exercise 12b – The MBean Browser
Exercise 12c – The Threads View
Exercise 12d (Bonus) – Triggers
Heap Waste Analysis (Bonus)
Object Selection
Referrer Tree-table
Class Histogram
Ancestor referrer
Exercise 13 – Reducing Memory Usage
JCMD (Java CoMmanD) (Bonus)
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Bonus Flight Recorder Examples

The bonus exercises in this Java Mission Control training course can be skipped in the interest of seeing as many different parts of Mission Control as possible. You can always go back and attempt them when you have completed the standard exercises.