How To Do GC Log Analysis?

Analyzing garbage collection logs provides several advantages like it reduces GC pause time, reduces cloud computing cost, predicts outages, provides effective metrics for capacity planning. To learn about the profound advantages of GC log analysis, please refer to this post. In this post let’s learn how to analyze GC logs?

Basically, there are 3 essential steps when it comes to GC log analysis:

How Many Millions of Dollars Do Enterprises Waste Due to Garbage Collection?

We truly believe enterprises are wasting millions of dollars in garbage collection. We equally believe enterprises are wasting these many millions of dollars even without knowing they are wasting. The intent of this post is to bring visibility to how several millions of dollars are wasted due to garbage collection.

What is Garbage?

All applications have a finite amount of memory. When a new request comes, the application creates objects to service the request. Once a request is processed, all the objects created to service that request are no longer needed. In other terms those objects become garbage. They have to be evicted/removed from the memory so that room is created to service new incoming requests.