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What is Java Flight Recorder and how is it different from a heap dump?
JFR continuously records JVM events (allocations, GC, thread state, I/O) with typically under 1% overhead, giving you a timeline of behavior leading up to a problem — a heap dump is only a single point-in-time snapshot of live objects, with no history of how you got there.
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