YourKit sponsors the Jenkins project

Alexander Brandes July 10, 2025

We’re proud to welcome YourKit as a new sponsor of the Jenkins project!

YourKit has generously provided free licenses for the YourKit Java Profiler to Jenkins core maintainers and active contributors. This tool is a powerful asset when analyzing performance regressions, debugging memory leaks, or resolving concurrency issues in Jenkins core and plugin code.

YourKit supports open source projects with innovative and intelligent tools for monitoring and profiling Java and .NET applications. YourKit is the creator of YourKit Java Profiler, YourKit .NET Profiler, and YourKit YouMonitor.

While YourKit offers a suite of tools, this sponsorship specifically provides licenses for the YourKit Java Profiler to eligible Jenkins contributors.

How to Request a License

If you’re actively contributing to Jenkins and would benefit from a YourKit Java Profiler license, please contact Alexander Brandes (@NotMyFault) via email. His contact information are available on his GitHub profile: https://github.com/NotMyFault

Include your GitHub handle and a short note indicating your interest in a YourKit license.

Thank You

We’re incredibly grateful to YourKit for supporting the Jenkins project and enabling our contributors to go deeper into performance tuning and diagnostics. Their support strengthens the quality and reliability of Jenkins for everyone.

About the author

Alexander Brandes

Alexander is a member of the Jenkins governing board, a core maintainer, and release team member, and actively involved in the process of releasing Jenkins weekly and Long-Term-Support builds.
He maintains the Ionicons API plugin and several other plugins.
If he doesn’t work on open source software, Alexander enjoys listening to music and going for a run.