Memory Pressure Indicates State Growth
warningResource ContentionUpdated Mar 24, 2021
Rising heap memory usage in InfluxDB correlates with growing application state size. When heap usage increases significantly, check checkpoint metrics to confirm state size growth and consider state cleanup or retention policies.
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How to detect:
Monitor JVM heap memory used and committed metrics. If heap usage grows continuously over time without stabilizing, correlate with estimated state size from checkpoint metrics.
Recommended action:
Investigate application-specific state retention. Review time windows, key cardinality, and event-time skew. Consider reducing retention periods or implementing state cleanup logic. For InfluxDB specifically, check _internal measurements for series cardinality and database size growth.