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How do I enable Java garbage collection logging?

Solution Verified - Updated 2018-10-22T13:13:24+00:00 -

Issue

We got a OutOfMemoryError, how do we print garbage collection (GC) logs.
What are the best options to use for enable JVM verbose GC logging?
We want to troubleshoot a Java application, is there any documentation to enable GC logs?
How can we diagnose high cpu or memory usage on a Java application?
Is there any recommended way to enable GC logging?

Environment

The garbagedog lab tool has been retired.

Java
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS)
- Tomcat
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ (A-MQ)
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