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.

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.

Java 16 shipped and with it JEP 387: Elastic Metaspace. JEP 387 was massive, my most extensive OpenJDK contribution so far.