Shows the maximum heap size and the amount of used and free space in it. This view can be displayed as a line graph or area graph.
When you profile a Java 1.5+ JVM, the drop down list at the top offers all available memory pools. Please see the article on tuning garbage collection for more information on heap memory pools. In addition, there are several memory pools for non-heap data structures. The drop down list shows all available memory pools in a tree-like structure, so you can display the sum of all heap pools (the default selection) or the sum of all non-heap pools in the graph.
When a view is shown as an area graph, the line which shows the total value is given by the upper bound of the filled area while the single contributions are shown as stacked area segments.
Horizontal and vertical grid lines of the VM telemetry views can be configured in the view settings dialog.