Hands-On Lab: Smart Instrumentation

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Hands-On Lab: Smart Instrumentation

Marc Chéné

OCX20L #CAWorld

CA TechnologiesApplication Performance Management

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Abstract

In this hands-on lab, you will learn about the new Smart Instrumentation capability , delivered as part of CA Application Performance Management (CA APM) 9.7, which delivers deep diagnostics capabilities.

Marc Chéné

CA Technologies

APM Product Manager


Agenda

SMART INSTRUMENTATION OVERVIEW

LAB 1: AUTOMATIC TRANSACTION TRACING (TT) WITH ERRORS

Q&A

LAB 2: DEEP COMPONENT VISIBILITY IN STALL EVENT

LAB 3: UPDATE THE INSTRUMENTATION LEVEL

SMART INSTRUMENTATION FEATURES UNDER CONSIDERATION

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Smart Instrumentation Overview

Goal: Identify critical components to be monitored, and isolate problem components without requiring comprehensive knowledge of an application environment or manual instrumentation.


The Visibility Gap

Call Graph

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2300ms Method Call “I”

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Transaction trace/Inverted wedding cake

1500ms Method Call “J”

1300ms Method Call “K”

1000ms Method Call “F”

50ms Method Call “B”

30ms Method Call “C”

25ms Method Call “D”

25ms Method Call “E”

50ms G


CA APM 9.6 Introduces Deep Transaction Traces

Deep traces collected for transaction trace sessions: Manual Trace Session, CLW, Sample Traces, CEM

Available both in trace view and historical event viewer

Deep Component Visibility in Error Snapshots

Use Byte Code Analysis to determine the complexity of the Method

Score: used to determine if a component will be collected in a Deep Trace

Deep Trace contains class name, method name and timing information only


CA APM 9.7 Smart InstrumentationAutomatically provide deep call stack visibility into the performance of applications to rapidly triage the root cause and diagnose their application performance issues.

Feature– Automatic Transaction Traces with deep call path visibility based on application

errors and component response times – Deep component visibility in Stall Snapshots– (Hot configuration) Instrumentation level change doesn’t require

Agent/Application restart Benefits

– Automatically collect transaction traces when a problem occurs.– Rapid application triage doesn’t require in-depth knowledge of the application

or the need to modify instrumentation.


Automatic Evidence Collection

Automatic Transaction Trace when a problem occurs– When there is an error

– Component Response Time Threshold

– Extension API to create custom triggers

Automatic Traces created from highly optimized light weight tracers– Don’t display all the component properties as in a regular trace

– For frontends and backends (for example, servlets, Web services, SQL calls), the name is formatted based on the PBD configuration

– Clamps in IntrioscopeAgent.profile to limit number of traces

Deep component visibility in Stall Snapshots


Stall Snapshots With Deep Call Stack Visibility

Stall Snapshot with Deep Trace Components


Hands-On Lab Information

Environment Overview– Demo Application: TIXCHANGE

– Application Server: Tomcat 7

CA APM 9.7 Wiki Documentation: https://wiki.ca.com/display/APMDEVOPSCV/CA+Application+Performance+Management– User ID: [email protected]

– Password: CAworld14

https://wiki.ca.com/display/APMDEVOPSCV/CA+Application+Performance+Management


Lab 1: Automatic Transaction Tracing (TT) With Errors

Documentation: CAW-OCX20L-Lab1-

AutomaticTransactionTracing(TT)withErrors.pdf


Lab 2: Update the Instrumentation Level: low to high

Documentation: CAW-OCX20L-Lab2-UpdateInstrumentationLevel.pdf

Step-by-step Overview

– Open the IntroscopeAgent.profile, located in: C:\apps\wily\core\config

– Find the following property: introscope.agent.deep.instrumentation.level

– Change instrumentation level to: high


Lab 3: Deep Component Visibility in Stall Event

Documentation: CAW-OCX20L-Lab2-DeepComponentVisibilityInStallEvent.pdf


Lab 4: Transaction Component Response Time Threshold—OPTIONAL

Goal: Automatically trigger Transaction Traces (TTs) that are above the configured response time duration.

Documentation: CAW-OCX20L-Lab4-TransactionComponentResponseTimeThreshold.pdf

Defining a tracer

with a threshold

Apply the tracer

to a class and

method


Roadmap: Application Performance ManagementTimeline as of November, 2014STRATEGIC INTENT: Strategy statement/vision

UNDER CONSIDERATION

MARQUEE FEATURES/BUSINESS

VALUE

Adaptive Smart Instrumentation based on Runtime Analysis

Automatic Front End detection

Quick and Easy Instrumentation

Converting a deep visibility component to a monitored component

Automatic tracing integrated with APM Transaction Time thresholds

Boundary only Monitoring with deep dive diagnostics for Root cause Analysis


Smart Instrumentation: Summary

CA APM 9.6

Faster Root Cause and Diagnosis

• Deep Transaction Tracing Visibility

• Deep Visibility in Error Snapshots

• Foundation: Scoring

CA APM 9.7

Automatic Evidence collection

• Automatic Tracing

• Deep Component Visibility in Stall Snapshots

• Instrumentation Level “Hot”

• Foundation: Automatic Tracing

Under Consideration*

• Automatic Tracing Based on APM Thresholds

• Automatic Frontend Detection

• Smart Instrumentation Based on Runtime Gap Analysis


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