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1. Download Yourkit tar on each node of your cluster (since you don't know where AM will be launched) and extract files. 
2. Add following property in tez-site.xml:

{code:xml}
<property>
	<name>tez.am.launch.cmd-opts</name>
	<value>-agentpath:<absolute path of libyjpagent.so>=<yourkit options></value>
</property>
{code}

libyjpagent.so can be found in <Yourkit-dir>/bin/<architecture>/libyjpagent.so. 

Yourkit options can be found by running

java -agentpath:<path of libyjpagent.so>=help <some-java-class>

If you are capturing snapshot of DAGAppMaster, snapshot files can be found under your home dir in 'Snapshot' dir. If you submit YARN job as user yarn, you need go to /home/yarn/Snapshots.

Profiling task containers is similar to profiling DAGAppMaster, the only difference is you should use property 'tez.task.launch.cmd-opts' (for all tasks) or 'tez.task-specific.launch.cmd-opts' (for specific task) in tez-site.xml.