How do you analyze GC logs, thread dumps and head dumps?
Hi awesome community! In this article, I would like to describe the one of the toolset (service) for the analyze some problems on different Java-based instances, of course, as Atlassian administrator, first of all, it is Atlassian applications. First, of the all, I want to say many thanks to the Atlassian Ecosystem developers for the providing Troubleshooting and Support tools . Because a lot of users can provide easy support.zip with thread dumps and GC logs if it is enabled ( since 7.4 it is pre-populated in the configs ). By the way, you can take a thread dump yourself using the jps ( or old way ps aux | grep java ) and jstack . I hope these useful articles will help you ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). Well, let's back to our steps about GC, if you click and read the KB about GC logging then you will find already interesting tools GC viewer , Visual GC , but it will be good if ...