This tutorial discusses how to get traces from a small Java application packaged in a jar-file and subsequently create graphics from the collected monitoring data.
For this tutorial, we assume your program is storad in MyJar.jar
Download Kieker complete archive https://github.com/kieker-monitoring/kieker/releases/download/1.15.4/kieker-1.15.4-binaries.zip
Extract the package
Copy kieker-1.15.4-aspectj.jar from the build/libs/ directory into the same directory as your jar file.
Execute java -javaagent:kieker-1.15.4-aspectj.jar -jar MyJar.jar
Kieker writes the monitoring log files into the system’s default temporary
directory (e.g. /tmp/) in a directory named kieker-<date>-<timestamp>-UTC.
The precise path can be found in the console output.
Alternatively, you can specify the path to the kieker property file
kieker.properties and the AspectJ file aop.xml as follows:
java -javaagent:kieker-1.15.4-aspectj.jar -Dkieker.monitoring.configuration=file://path/to/kieker.properties -Dorg.aspectj.weaver.loadtime.configuration=file://path/to/aop.xml -jar MyJar.jar
Under Linux you should use in the following the corresponding .sh-scripts instead of the .bat-scripts.
Install Graphviz and make sure that the binaries are accessible via the system’s path.
Execute bin\trace-analysis.bat -i <temporary directory>\kieker-<date>-<timestamp>-UTC -o . --plot-Aggregated-Assembly-Call-Tree --plot-Assembly-Component-Dependency-Graph
Execute bin\dotPic-fileConverter.bat . png