Continual Metric increase on PerfMonCollector Agent

Products

• CA Application Performance Management Agent (APM / Wily / Introscope)
• INTROSCOPE

Issue/Introduction

The .NET Perfmon Collector agent is showing a gradual increase in the historical metric count which if unchecked will eventually cause the agent to be clamped on the Enterprise Manager

Environment

Release:
Component: APMAGT

Resolution

Identified via metric count tab in the investigator using a 30 day view that the growing number of dynamic metrics were being collected under Perfmon|.NET Data Provider for SQL Server.

This was defined in the agent profile query property introscope.agent.perfmon.metric.filterPattern

This was modified and teh following string removed |.NET Data Provider*|*|* from the query

That metric branch stopped reporting after perfmon restart