Autopilot: Building the Ultimate Ops Engineer with JFR and AI

JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) is an observability and diagnostic framework built directly into the JDK. It can provide a rich and detailed view into how your application and the JVM are behaving at runtime. It is able to do this while maintaining a sub-1% impact on application throughput, allowing it to be always on in production.

While JFR is an incredibly powerful tool, its utilization is rather low, and the amount of information it provides can feel overwhelming. JFR can be always on, but the engineers needed to analyze its recordings can’t be. And if an issue happens at 2:00 a.m., it might mean waiting hours before a human engineer can review the recording and offer a solution.

In this presentation, we will look at how JFR can be combined with agentic AI to build the ultimate Ops engineer: an engineer that can review JFR recordings and propose improvements to an application; an engineer that is always available, day and night, and able to respond in real time as issues occur.

If you have been looking for novel opportunities to incorporate AI into your organization or improve the performance of your applications in production, this is a presentation you don’t want to miss.