When you tune Garbage collection performance, you are not only improving Garbage collection pause time but also the overall application’s response time and reducing cloud computing cost. Recently, we helped to tune the Garbage collection behavior of a popular application. Just by making a minor change, it resulted in a dramatic improvement. Let’s discuss this garbage collection tuning success story in this post.
Garbage Collection KPIs
There is a famous saying that "you can’t optimize something that you can’t measure." When it comes to garbage collection tuning, there are only 3 primary Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that you should be focusing upon: