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Take a self-guided product tour to see for yourself (no registration required).This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” thread wait/blocked time accounting is not supported on this JDK ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: monitor, thread.

Log Context
Log “thread wait/blocked time accounting is not supported on this JDK”classname is HotThreads.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
} // Enabling thread contention monitoring is required for capturing JVM thread wait/blocked times. If we weren't // able to enable this functionality during bootstrap; we should not produce HotThreads reports. if (isThreadWaitBlockTimeMonitoringEnabled(threadBean) == false) { throw new ElasticsearchException("thread wait/blocked time accounting is not supported on this JDK"); } StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder().append("Hot threads at ") .append(DATE_TIME_FORMATTER.format(LocalDateTime.now(Clock.systemUTC()))) .append("; interval=")
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