IDENTIFICATION AND REMEDIATION OF MEMORY LEAKS USING RULE-BASED DETECTION OF ANOMALOUS MEMORY USAGE PATTERNS

An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to initiate, in response to a designated event, monitoring of memory allocation and de-allocation operations associated with a given application, to maintain a memory allocation operation data structure comprising entries each corresponding to a memory allocation operation not having an associated memory de-allocation operation, and to determine whether memory usage of the given application corresponds to any of a set of anomalous memory usage pattern rules based on the memory allocation operation data structure. The processing device is also configured to identify the given application as being a cause of a memory leak responsive to determining that the memory usage of the given application corresponds to one or more of the anomalous memory usage pattern rules, and to perform remedial action for preventing or resolving the memory leak responsive to identifying the given application as being the cause of the memory leak.