Garbage Collection (ParNew)

The Garbage Collection (ParNew) metric group contains metrics related to the behaviour of the Java Virtual Machine’s ParNew garbage collector.  The metrics available are:

• Count
• Total time
• Last duration

Count

The total number of garbage collections that have occurred.

You can also get this metric through the Monitoring API with the query param metrics=n::garbagecollectionparnewcollectioncount.

Total time

The approximate accumulated garbage collection elapsed time.

You can also get this metric through the Monitoring API with the query param metrics=n::garbagecollectionparnewcollectiontime.

Last duration

The elapsed time of the last garbage collection.

You can also get this metric through the Monitoring API with the query param metrics=n::garbagecollectionparnewlastduration.