Studying Heap Usage in the Management Console

As described in "Studying Heap Usage in Verbose Outputs", an increased heap usage over time can be a sign of a memory leak in the Java application.

Instead of viewing verbose outputs, tedious at best, you can use the Management Console Overview and Memory tabs to monitor garbage collection activity. In the Management Console's Memory graph you easily see trends in the heap usage over time; for example, you might notice that heap usage is steadily increasing without correlating event activity. Once you have determined that you have a memory leak, you can switch to the Memory Leak Detector to actually find the object that is leaking.