The most obvious limitation. The key expires 14 days after issuance. Once expired, JProfiler reverts to a "viewer-only" mode where you cannot start new profiling sessions, though you can still examine previously saved snapshots ( .jps files).
JProfiler provides a visual interface to inspect these runtime metrics. It offers a "4-in-1" solution covering CPU profiling, memory profiling, thread analysis, and telemetry.
If your Java application suffers from unexplained latency, memory bloat, or thread deadlocks, investing two hours to request an evaluation key and attach JProfiler to your running application is one of the highest-ROI debugging activities you can undertake.