Java OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace in app-system or bg-system.log, low memory usage in heap dump
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Issue/Introduction
Alert showed java.lang.OutOfMemoryError in the app-system.log file. Upon checking the heap dump we could see low memory usage and nothing out of ordinary. This is not a heap space issue but metaspace issue.
Error from the system log: 2019/02/21 08:23:23.414 | java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace