topic Re: AppdynamicsAgent.startTransaction/endTransaction never shows in BT list in Splunk AppDynamics

AppdynamicsAgent.startTransaction/endTransaction never shows in BT list

gliptak — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:13:34 GMT

I followed coding snippets at

https://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO45/Java+Agent+API+User+Guide

marking business transactions and they don't show up in the BT list for the application.

With basic code

public String checkout(List<ItemOrders> orders) {
   try (Transaction transaction = AppdynamicsAgent.startTransaction("Checkout", null, EntryTypes.POJO, false)) {
        /*******************
         * Method Body Here
         *******************/
    }
}

I also reviewed https://community.appdynamics.com/t5/Knowledge-Base/Why-aren-t-business-transactions-appearing-in-the-Business/ta-p/13973#SeeBusinessTransactions but that page doesn't address API created transactions.

Any pointers on how this can be debugged?

Re: AppdynamicsAgent.startTransaction/endTransaction never shows in BT list

Peter_Holditch — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:16:27 GMT

2 thing to check:

Are there any error or informational messages written in the agent log?
Have you hit the node or application level BT limit?

Warm regards,

Peter

Re: AppdynamicsAgent.startTransaction/endTransaction never shows in BT list

gliptak — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:33:23 GMT

Peter, thank you for the pointers.

I didn't see related messages in the logs. I did put in log statements into the code to validate that the code is called.

I see about ~15 BTs listed so with default limit of ~40(?) BTs it is under.

Re: AppdynamicsAgent.startTransaction/endTransaction never shows in BT list

Peter_Holditch — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:03:45 GMT

Hm, OK.

Your code does. not show you calling endTransaction, but you do mention that in the subject.

Are you certain your code is calling endTransaction?

Also, how many times in the transaction you have instrumented being executed?

Do you see it referenced if you remove the (default) filter for Transactions with performance data?

Re: AppdynamicsAgent.startTransaction/endTransaction never shows in BT list

gliptak — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 16:02:37 GMT

Peter, I coded both direct startTransaction()/endTransaction() and just try/startTransaction() to no avail. After further experiments, I do see some transactions displayed after cleanup and restart (of my client).

The listed code is from AppD documentation and it calls closeTransaction() during completion of the "try" section.

I have to manually create load on my current setup.

Re: AppdynamicsAgent.startTransaction/endTransaction never shows in BT list

Peter_Holditch — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:25:34 GMT

Gabor,

My bad, I missed the local-to-the-try-catch-block constructed Transaction object when I looked at your code.

From your latest comments, it sounds as if this is working as expected. The 1st time your entry is called within a new process, the BT will register with the controller. Once that is done, subsequent invocations handled in the same process will be measured, and as those measurements are reported by the agent (once per minute) the data will become visible in the controller.

I suspect you eventually amassed enough post-registration invocations and elapsed time for that to happen.

Warm regards,

Peter