Analyzing OOM-kills is no fun. You fly mostly blind, have no meaningful logs - your JVMs just keep disappearing. It can be highly frustrating work. If that sounds familiar, we may have something for you. OOM-kills mean sudden death. The JVM gets ...

SAP’s own Java VM SapMachine comes with a handy monitoring tool you may not know: SapMachine Vitals. Think sysstat tools - pidstat, iostat, etc - plus JVM stats rolled into one and baked into our JVM for your convenience. Curious? After me. Our...

The Java Virtual Machine needs memory to breathe - sometimes more than we like. One of its hungrier subsystems can be the Metaspace, the part of the JVM holding class metadata. With JEP 387, SAP contributed a much more frugal and elastic implementati...