General

1. Why is Profiling needed?
2. Where can I find out more, or ask a question?
3. I found a bug, where can I file it?

Installation

1. How do I install Profiling?

Why is Profiling needed?

Code profiling is notoriously difficult to do well in a server side application. You often can't run traditional JVM-based profilers on a remote server, or leave them installed in deployed applications.

Profiling was developed by Atlassian because we needed it to profile our J2EE applications (like JIRA). It helps us, we hope it helps you!

Where can I find out more, or ask a question?

The discussion forum is a good place to start, otherwise try emailing legendaryservice@atlassian.com.

I found a bug, where can I file it?

You can file bugs in Profiling's JIRA project.

Incidentally Profiling was built to profile JIRA, our bug tracking and project management application - so this question is all a bit recursive!

How do I install Profiling?

Like any other library that comes in a jar. Just make sure it's on your application's classpath. Also see configuration for how to configure Atlassian Profiling, and code profiling to learn how to profile your own code.