Gunnar Morling 2/20/2022

The JDK Flight Recorder File Format

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This technical article dives into the undocumented file format of JDK Flight Recorder (JFR), a Java profiling tool. It explains the lack of an official specification, describes the author's process of reverse-engineering the format using source code and a hex editor, and discusses the utility of this knowledge for building analysis tools in other languages or repairing corrupted files.

The JDK Flight Recorder File Format

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