Profile Your Native Image

GraalVM Native Image can be used to turn your service into a standalone platform executable. Such executables provide valuable performance benefits in production, and the process of creating them is now supported as a standard procedure by major application frameworks.

However, some daily tasks may seem more challenging than expected, such as debugging and diagnostics in a broad sense. In particular, the same applies to profiling when it comes to the point where we need to track down hot spots in the code.

Fortunately, there are a bunch of tools today that can handle this task. The profiling experience can be different from a traditional JVM, and sometimes special setup is required. Of course, things get even more exciting when the application is running on K8s.