There is no external load on scylla-jmx, but we can see in the GC log that there occur minor and major collections inducing pauses up to 200ms.
This is probably caused by scylla-jmx polling scylla every second for some metrics even when not used.
1080.775: Application time: 0.2937128 seconds
1080.775: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0001911 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000178 seconds
1080.775: Application time: 0.0000257 seconds
1080.775: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0000717 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000089 seconds
1080.775: Application time: 0.0000209 seconds
1080.775: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0000731 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000084 seconds
1080.775: Application time: 0.0000132 seconds
1080.775: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0000630 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000062 seconds
1080.775: Application time: 0.0000136 seconds
1080.775: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0000631 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000062 seconds
1080.776: Application time: 0.0000350 seconds
1080.776: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0000699 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000063 seconds
1095.481: Application time: 14.7054517 seconds
1095.482: [Full GC (Allocation Failure) 237491K->30993K(253440K), 0.2362866 secs]
1095.718: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.2369596 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000210 seconds
1097.718: Application time: 2.0001543 seconds
1097.718: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0001689 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000208 seconds
1110.482: Application time: 12.7636455 seconds
1110.483: [GC (Allocation Failure) 100945K->52084K(253440K), 0.0860028 secs]
1110.569: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0868157 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0003010 seconds
1126.776: Application time: 16.2074052 seconds
1126.777: [GC (Allocation Failure) 122036K->71547K(253440K), 0.1061292 secs]
1126.883: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.1065841 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000201 seconds
1142.778: Application time: 15.8951925 seconds
1142.778: [GC (Allocation Failure) 141499K->91035K(253440K), 0.1146070 secs]
1142.894: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.1155050 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0000227 seconds
1158.781: Application time: 15.8874965 seconds
1158.781: [GC (Allocation Failure) 160987K->110368K(253440K), 0.1066694 secs]