ASPROF(1)

✨ ASPROF ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because asprof is literally the moment 💅 — it's the user-command side of the async-profiler manual, a low overhead sampling profiler for Java. yes you read that right, low overhead. she's not here to slow your JVM to a crawl, she's here to slay 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

asprof [options] pid

that's the whole vibe: you throw some options at her, you hand her a pid, she does her thing. iconic.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so asprof is a low overhead sampling profiler for Java, and the way that she does not suffer from the safepoint bias problem. like, not even a little. no cap. 🎀

and she's not a one-trick pony either — she's got APIs for Java, JNI bindings, and a command-line launcher. three flavors, all delicious, all her. main character energy fr fr 👑

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

ngl this page is keeping it mysterious, because for the complete list of options you gotta run:

asprof --help

go on, she'll tell you everything herself ✨

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Andrei Pangin and the async-profiler authors. legends only, we stan 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the official documentation and README are out here living online at:

https://github.com/async-profiler/async-profiler

go read, iykyk 📖✨

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Andrei Pangin. periodt. 💅

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ok that's the whole page bestie, mwah 🍓

and a lil sign-off for you: this was written for the async-profiler User Manuals, dated June 2026, and it's page ASPROF(1) of your friendly neighborhood manual 💖 bye babes 🧚