Bookmarks

All graph views with a time axis display bookmarks. Bookmarks are vertical lines at certain points of the time axis. Every bookmark has a description. When you hover with the mouse above a bookmark, the description will be displayed in a tooltip window. Bookmarks are global for all views, i.e. a bookmark is displayed in all graphs and has the same description everywhere.

Bookmarks are created

when starting and stopping allocation call stack recording
when starting and stopping CPU recording
when enabling or disabling triggers
when starting and stopping method statistics recording
when starting and stopping call tracing
when saving a snapshot
when taking a heap dump
when profiling settings are updated
when starting or stopping monitor recording
when taking a thread dump
when starting or stopping probe recording
manually
You can manually add a bookmark at the current time by
- clicking on the add bookmark button in the toolbar.
- choosing Profiler->Add Bookmark from the main menu.
You can add a bookmark at any past moment in time by moving the mouse to the desired point on a graph view with a time axis and choose Add Bookmark Here here from the main menu.
from the profiling API
You can use the profiling API in order to add a bookmark programatically.
with a trigger
You can also use a trigger and the "Add bookmark" action to add a bookmark. This is also useful for offline profiling.

For the start event, the bookmark is a solid line, for the stop event, the bookmark is a dashed line.

In graph views with a time axis you can

edit the properties of a bookmark
by right-clicking it and choosing Edit Bookmark from the context menu. The dialog for editing a single bookmark will be displayed.
delete a bookmark
by right-clicking it and choosing Delete Bookmark from the context menu.

The list of bookmarks can be shown by choosing Profiling->Edit Bookmarks from JProfiler's main menu. The bookmark dialog will be shown where you can edit, delete and export the list of bookmarks.