diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 62e6677..7a08283 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -69,27 +69,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           name: pollcatch-decoder
           path: ./decoder/target/debug/pollcatch-decoder
-  build-async-profiler:
-    name: Build async-profiler
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Install async-profiler Dependencies
-        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y sudo libicu-dev patchelf curl make g++ openjdk-11-jdk-headless gcovr
-      - name: Build async-profiler
-        working-directory: tests
-        shell: bash
-        run: ./build-async-profiler.sh
-      - name: Upload artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: libasyncProfiler
-          path: ./tests/async-profiler/build/lib/libasyncProfiler.so
   test:
     name: Integration Test
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: [build-for-testing, build-decoder, build-async-profiler]
+    needs: [build-for-testing, build-decoder]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Download pollcatch-decoder
@@ -102,11 +85,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           name: example-simple
           path: ./tests
-      - name: Download libasyncProfiler
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: libasyncProfiler
-          path: ./tests
+      - name: Download async-profiler
+        shell: bash
+        working-directory: tests
+        run: wget https://github.com/async-profiler/async-profiler/releases/download/v4.1/async-profiler-4.1-linux-x64.tar.gz -O async-profiler.tar.gz && tar xvf async-profiler.tar.gz && mv -vf async-profiler-*/lib/libasyncProfiler.so .
       - name: Run integration test
         shell: bash
         working-directory: tests
diff --git a/decoder/src/main.rs b/decoder/src/main.rs
index f5d74a0..768d1ca 100644
--- a/decoder/src/main.rs
+++ b/decoder/src/main.rs
@@ -54,6 +54,14 @@ enum Commands {
         #[arg(long, default_value = "5")]
         stack_depth: usize,
     },
+    /// Print the total duration (in seconds) of the JFR recording. Used in the integration tests.
+    Duration {
+        /// JFR file to read from
+        jfr_file: OsString,
+        /// If true, unzip first
+        #[arg(long)]
+        zip: bool,
+    },
 }
 
 #[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord)]
@@ -78,6 +86,24 @@ fn extract_async_profiler_jfr_from_zip(file: File) -> anyhow::Result<Option<Vec<
     Ok(None)
 }
 
+// doing this as a macro because functions are not higher-order enough
+// extract events from $jfr_file, $zip decides if it's a zip, then run $f($FILE, input)
+macro_rules! extract_events_from_path {
+    ($jfr_file:expr, $zip:expr, $f:expr, $input:expr) => {{
+        let mut jfr_file = std::fs::File::open($jfr_file)?;
+        match $zip {
+            false => $f(&mut jfr_file, $input),
+            true => {
+                if let Some(data) = extract_async_profiler_jfr_from_zip(jfr_file)? {
+                    $f(&mut Cursor::new(&data), $input)
+                } else {
+                    anyhow::bail!("no async_profiler_dump_0.jfr file found");
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }};
+}
+
 fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let cli = Cli::parse();
     tracing_subscriber::fmt::init();
@@ -89,21 +115,11 @@ fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
             zip,
             include_non_pollcatch,
         } => {
-            let mut jfr_file = std::fs::File::open(jfr_file)?;
             let config = LongPollConfig {
                 min_length,
                 include_non_pollcatch,
             };
-            let samples = match zip {
-                false => jfr_samples(&mut jfr_file, &config)?,
-                true => {
-                    if let Some(data) = extract_async_profiler_jfr_from_zip(jfr_file)? {
-                        jfr_samples(&mut Cursor::new(&data), &config)?
-                    } else {
-                        anyhow::bail!("no async_profiler_dump_0.jfr file found");
-                    }
-                }
-            };
+            let samples = extract_events_from_path!(jfr_file, zip, jfr_samples, &config)?;
             print_samples(&mut io::stdout(), samples, stack_depth).ok();
             Ok(())
         }
@@ -113,20 +129,15 @@ fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
             zip,
             stack_depth,
         } => {
-            let mut jfr_file = std::fs::File::open(jfr_file)?;
-            let events = match zip {
-                false => jfr_native_mem_events(&mut jfr_file, &type_)?,
-                true => {
-                    if let Some(data) = extract_async_profiler_jfr_from_zip(jfr_file)? {
-                        jfr_native_mem_events(&mut Cursor::new(&data), &type_)?
-                    } else {
-                        anyhow::bail!("no async_profiler_dump_0.jfr file found");
-                    }
-                }
-            };
+            let events = extract_events_from_path!(jfr_file, zip, jfr_native_mem_events, &type_)?;
             print_native_mem_events(&mut io::stdout(), events, &type_, stack_depth).ok();
             Ok(())
         }
+        Commands::Duration { jfr_file, zip } => {
+            let duration = extract_events_from_path!(jfr_file, zip, jfr_duration, ())?;
+            println!("{}", duration.as_secs_f64());
+            Ok(())
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -659,6 +670,19 @@ where
     Ok(samples)
 }
 
+fn jfr_duration<T>(reader: &mut T, _config: ()) -> anyhow::Result<Duration>
+where
+    T: Read + Seek,
+{
+    let mut jfr_reader = JfrReader::new(reader);
+
+    let total_nanos = jfr_reader
+        .chunks()
+        .map(|i| i.map(|i| i.1.header.duration_nanos))
+        .sum::<Result<i64, _>>()?;
+    Ok(Duration::from_nanos(total_nanos as u64))
+}
+
 #[derive(Debug)]
 struct NativeMemEvent {
     start_time: Duration,
@@ -934,6 +958,9 @@ mod test {
         }
         print_samples(&mut to, samples, 4).unwrap();
         assert_eq!(String::from_utf8(to).unwrap(), result);
+
+        let duration = crate::jfr_duration(&mut io::Cursor::new(jfr), ()).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(duration.as_nanos(), 15003104000);
     }
 
     #[test]
diff --git a/examples/simple/main.rs b/examples/simple/main.rs
index 6511529..4d6f063 100644
--- a/examples/simple/main.rs
+++ b/examples/simple/main.rs
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ async fn main_internal(args: Args) -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
         .build();
 
     tracing::info!("starting profiler");
-    profiler.spawn()?;
+    let handle = profiler.spawn_controllable()?;
     tracing::info!("profiler started");
 
     if let Some(timeout) = args.duration {
@@ -145,5 +145,7 @@ async fn main_internal(args: Args) -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
         slow::run().await;
     }
 
+    handle.stop().await;
+
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/examples/simple/slow.rs b/examples/simple/slow.rs
index 4ce4995..f80cbcb 100644
--- a/examples/simple/slow.rs
+++ b/examples/simple/slow.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 #[allow(deprecated)]
 fn accidentally_slow() {
     std::thread::sleep_ms(10);
-    std::hint::black_box(0);
+    // do a phony allocation for the allocation profiler
+    std::hint::black_box(Vec::<u8>::with_capacity(1 << 20));
 }
 
 #[inline(never)]
diff --git a/tests/integration.sh b/tests/integration.sh
index 7186cb3..fa8650c 100755
--- a/tests/integration.sh
+++ b/tests/integration.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,18 @@ rm -f profiles/*.jfr
 # Pass --worker-threads 16 to make the test much less flaky since there is always some worker thread running
 ./simple --local profiles --duration 30s --reporting-interval 10s --worker-threads 16 --native-mem 4k
 
+found_good=0
+
 for profile in profiles/*.jfr; do
+    duration=$(./pollcatch-decoder duration "$profile")
+    # Ignore "partial" profiles of less than 8s
+    if [[ $duration > 8 ]]; then
+        found_good=1
+    else
+        echo "Profile $profile is too short"
+        continue
+    fi
+
     # Basic event presence check
     native_malloc_count=$(./pollcatch-decoder nativemem --type malloc "$profile" | wc -l)
     if [ "$native_malloc_count" -lt 1 ]; then
@@ -48,3 +59,8 @@ for profile in profiles/*.jfr; do
         exit 1
     fi
 done
+
+if [ "$found_good" -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo Found no good profiles
+    exit 1
+fi