Can AppDynamics be used to monitor batch transactions which may take hours?

[Mick_McGuinness]

Or is their a max transaction time after which the transaction would not report?

[Arun_Dasetty]

Hi Mick,

Thanks for writing in. We understood that you are referring background tasks/batch jobs. If the above said is right,
Yes, we can use appdynamics monitor batch jobs/background tasks

refer docs: http://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO13S/Background+Task+Monitoring

http://docs.appdynamics.com/display/PRO13S/Configure+Background+Tasks

Appdynamics categorizes transactions as two types as follows:
- user transactions - a user/business transaction which is taking more than 6 times the stall threshold (default stall threshold is 45 secs set under configure -> slow transaction threshold screen)  then the transaction will be aborted after around 270 secs,

- background tasks - user transactions marked as background tasks or the background tasks(transaction/class execution job quartz, java timer etc) are expected to be monitored for long time

Let us know if that clarifies your query.

Thanks,

Arun

[Mick_McGuinness]

Thanks Arun, that's good to know.