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Memory profiling metrics 🔗

AlwaysOn Profiling provides memory metrics that you can use to build dashboards and set up alerts. The following image shows a sample dashboard of JVM memory metrics for a service:

Sample dashboard with memory profiling metric data.

For more information on dashboards, see Create and customize dashboards.

The list of available memory metrics depends on the programming language.

Java 🔗

You can access a pre-configured dashboard for JVM metrics to check memory usage. To access the dashboard:

  • On the dashboards landing page, select the new APM Java Services built-in dashboard group. Anyone can access this group by default.

  • Go to the Memory Profiling feature in APM, and select the link to navigate to the specific runtime metrics dashboard.