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skills/gc-log-analysis/SKILL.md
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Apache-2.0

Configuring and reading JVM unified GC logs: the -Xlog:gc* baseline with decorators and rotation, the cause field, the before->after->capacity triple and headroom, pause distribution, Eden-refill and old-region-growth estimates derived from region lines, adaptive tenuring pressure via gc+age, and correlation with -Xlog:safepoint. Use when a log needs to be interpreted, when GC logging is not enabled and the right GC tag-sets have to be chosen, when full collections or Metadata GC Threshold…

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# GC Log Analysis

## Purpose

Get testable hypotheses out of low-overhead JVM evidence. GC logging needs no agent and can
persist across the incident, but its overhead and volume depend on tag level, sink and I/O;
measure the production configuration. Enabling it after an incident cannot reconstruct
the missing interval, so a bounded baseline belongs in the service template.

## Workflow

1. **Identify the JDK build, collector, process identity, decorators and captured window.**
   Reuse the incident question, SLO and available evidence with its limits. Java 25 is the
   reference baseline, not a project upgrade requirement. If a material gap needs a capture,
   use the known target, existing authorization and a bounded budget; it cannot reconstruct
   the past. Adequate explicit tag selections do not need replacement with `gc*`.
2. **Read the cause, collector, event type and adjacent lines before forming a
   hypothesis.** The cause routes the investigation but is not a root-cause verdict; one
   trigger can lead to several mechanisms and collectors use different vocabularies.
3. **Separate duration from frequency.** Many short pauses violate no per-pause threshold
…

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Source

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robsonkades/agent-skills · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main

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