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About the Flight Recorder

The Java Flight Recorder is a rotating buffer of diagnostics and profiling data that is always available, on demand. You might consider it a sort of “time machine” that enables you to go back in runtime history to gather JVM and application event diagnostics data leading up to an event; for example, if you experienced a system crash, the Flight Recorder would have recorded the events that occurred up to that crash, which you could then display and study to determine the cause of that crash.

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