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Aug 21, 2026 · Backend Development

Arthas in Production: Diagnosing Spring Boot CPU Spikes, Memory Leaks & Latency Spikes

This article demonstrates using Arthas to diagnose a Spring Boot service with 100% CPU, memory leaks, and latency spikes, showing step-by-step commands like dashboard, thread, heapdump, trace, and watch to pinpoint dead loops, unbounded caches, and missing SQL indexes, plus emergency hot-patching with redefine.