Troubleshooting Java Performance: Detecting Anti-Patterns with Open Source Tools

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Erik OstermuellerTroubleshooting Java Performancehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2979-8_3

3. Metrics: The Antidote to Guesswork

Erik Ostermueller¹ 

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Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

 

The Introduction talked about the concept of Dark Environments, the problem where the right monitoring is rarely available when and where you need it. This is indeed a problem that we as an industry are long overdue to talk about and address, but there are two sides to this story. If we forget about all the practical problems (security, access, licensing, overhead, training, and so on) of getting the right tool plugged into the right environment, the tables are completely turned around. For some, instead of a being starved for data with too few ...