Which Java profiler is better: JProfiler or YourKit? [closed]

Answer 1

YourKit is great. You might also want to check out the profiler built into NetBeans--it's pretty cool.

Answer 2

Definitly YourKit. It is the most intuitiv and stable!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I've only used JProfiler (and some JProbe). As far as I can tell, one limitation of YourKit is that they don't appear to support JDK 1.4.2. That's not an issue for many people, but it might be.

Answer 5

I've used both JProfiler 4 and YourKit 7.5, and YourKit wins hands down. It's so much less invasive than JProfile, in that I'll happy run production servers with the YourKit agent installed, which I would never do with JProfiler.

Also, the analysis tool that comes with YourKit is more intuitive (in my opinion), making it easier to get the root cause of problems.

Answer 6

Definitely YourKit ... It was able to open 4 gigs heap dump with just 1g of heap used. While Jprofiler with same heap allocation crashed!