So while exploring the JFR-Event-Stream-System I came across the problem that there’s no (human readable) documentation what JFR-Events are available in a given JDK-Version.

Erik Gahlin who works on JavaFlightRecorder pointed me to a command one can use to dump the information

The output you get from such a command is something like:

So this is some structured text (well it’s fairly simple Java-Code). So I crafted a simple parser using Xtext:

wrote an HTML-Generator using Xtend, threw some CSS-Framework (https://getuikit.com/) on it to get

Created a github-repo so that you can browse that yourself – https://bestsolution-at.github.io/jfr-doc/openjdk-14.html