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Overhead of using Object Instance Tracking

CommunityUser
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

We would like to enable Object Instance tracking on our applications running on production. What is the overhead of enabling this feature and keeping it on all the time?

Thanks

Sudip

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Mike_McFarland
New Member

Like Arun said, OIT is not designed to run all the time in a production enviroment.  It is really only meant to be run for an hour or two, but not days.  Of course, in a test enviroment, you could probably get away with running it for a full day, but even then, you probably would not want to run it much longer than that.

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CommunityUser
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If you must turn it on you can of course just monitor some custom classes that you may be concerned with.

Bill

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Arun_Dasetty
Super Champion

Hi Sudip,

We request you to enable the OIT feature only during diagnostic session and disable back once debugging session is completed, it is not recommended to keep enable this feature over long period however enabling and disabling for short period should not be adding considerable overhead to memory. Hope that clarifies.

Regards,

Arun

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