I have integrated newRelic-api to my service, just for monitoring. But in the past few days the service has been going down because of OOM. I read a post in newRelic's forum's which basically says that its a problem with my service and asks to increase the -xmx. Mine is a tiny service which doesn't need much memory. So I have put -xmx to 3GB - https://discuss.newrelic.com/t/relic-solution-troubleshooting-java-agent-memory-leaks-and-outofmemoryerror-issues-with-eclipse-memory-analyzer-tool/59596
Below I have added the dependency in the service and all I do is add newRelic.jar to the JavaOptions in my DockerFile -javaagent:tmp/newrelic/newrelic.jar
There are multiple questions here, since this is a tool which is good to have, but not critical for me, I can't spend much time debugging the issue, so if this is a known issue please let me know if there is any configuration that I can add or remove from newrelic.yml. I am currently using default settings common: &default_settings in it.
Should I downgrade newRelic since I am not using any of their advanced features? Or should I upgrade to the latest newRelic versions?
<dependency>
<groupId>com.newrelic.agent.java</groupId>
<artifactId>newrelic-api</artifactId>
<version>5.7.0</version>
</dependency>
This is what Eclipse MAT shows 