[[heapdump]]
= Heap Dump (`heapdump`)

The `heapdump` endpoint provides a heap dump from the application's JVM.



[[heapdump-retrieving]]
== Retrieving the Heap Dump

To retrieve the heap dump, make a `GET` request to `/actuator/heapdump`. The response
is binary data in https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/samples/hprof.html[
HPROF] format and can be large. Typically, you should save the response to disk for
subsequent analysis. When using curl, this can be achieved by using the `-O` option,
as shown in the following example:

include::{snippets}heapdump/curl-request.adoc[]

The preceding example results in a file named `heapdump` being written to the current
working directory.
