Chapter 7. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Primer

The key to troubleshooting Java workloads is to understand the critical four technology tiers shown in Figure 7-1: the load balancer tier, the web server tier, the Java application server tier, and the DB server tier.

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Figure 7-1 Four Key Technology Tiers and Stakeholders

When troubleshooting Java application issues, many often assume that a garbage collection (GC) problem exists at the Java application tier. However, problematic issues could be present in any one of these tiers. Complicating troubleshooting efforts is the fact that teams from multiple operational divisions within an organization ...

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