BitDive
BitDive is a cutting-edge performance profiling tool that offers a new integrated, flexible, and low-overhead approach to application profiling. Unlike traditional Java profiling methods (JVM-based), BitDive leverages a library-based method, making it developer-friendly and well-suited for modern application architectures and development practices.
BitDive addresses a wide range of enterprise use cases including low-overhead continuous profiling, real-time monitoring, and error tracking, providing deep code-level insights combined with production-safe operation. BitDive is designed to be resource-efficient, easy to operate and scale, requires no code changes, and works seamlessly across all codebases.
Key Features
-Integration via simple Maven dependency addition in pom.xml and minimal configuration through a YAML file
-Easy setup with zero code changes (auto-instrumentation)
-No JVM restart required for configuration changes
-Designed for ease of use, making it approachable for developers with varying skill levels
-Supports long-term, continuous profiling in production environments
-Low (very low) overhead due to in-process monitoring
-Optimized support for microservices and distributed systems
-Support multithreading and asynchronous task monitoring
-Detailed application-level metrics including:
--method input arguments, return values for rapid root cause analysis and performance optimization
--error information for real-time monitoring and debugging
--database queries for a lot more insights
-Built-in tools for performance analysis and application visualization:
-Automatic dependency mapping for modeling application services
-Call tree visualization to illustrate method invocation sequences
-Flame Graphs to identify bottlenecks within the call hierarchy for optimization
-Supports selective monitoring for specific modules or services
-Well-suited for scaling in containerized and cloud-native applications
-Works well with modern development practices (CI/CD, microservice architecture)