Probing the JVM with BPF/BCC | All Your Base Are Belong To Us

Probing the JVM with BPF/BCC | All Your Base Are Belong To Us: "Probing the JVM with BPF/BCC 


Now that BCC has support for USDT probes, another thing I wanted to try is look at OpenJDK probes and extract some useful examples. To follow along, install a recent OpenJDK (I used 1.8) that has USDT probes enabled. 


On my Fedora 22, sudo dnf install java was just enough for everything. Conveniently, OpenJDK ships with a set of .stp files that contain probe definitions. Here’s an example — and there are many more in your $JAVA_HOME/tapset directory:"



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