How to disable Introscope Agent log, AutoProbe log or log entries inside application being monitored?

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

In certain situations or for various reasons, a customer may want to cease the generation of log files by the Introscope Agent. There are basically two types of log files that the Introscope Agent generates, namely the IntroscopeAgent.log and AutoProbe.log. Also, Agent generates output inside Application logs.

How can I stop the Introscope agent log, AutoProbe log and output inside application logs from being generated?

Environment

• APM Java Agent

Resolution

1. To disable AutoProbe.log, you need to comment out the introscope.autoprobe.logfile properties in the IntroscopeAgent.profile. For example:

    #introscope.autoprobe.logfile=../../logs/AutoProbe.log

   Note: Changes to this properties require a restart

2. To disable IntroscopeAgent.log, you need to perform any of the following actions:

    a. Set the values for the agent logger properties to OFF. For example:

         log4j.logger.IntroscopeAgent=OFF

    b. Configure the agent logger option to only send output to application being monitored by removing "logfile" entry. For example:

        log4j.logger.IntroscopeAgent=INFO, console
 
3. To disable output message inside Application being monitored, you need to perform any of the following actions:

    a. Configure the agent logger option to only send output to Agent log path by removing the "console" entry. For example:

        log4j.logger.IntroscopeAgent=INFO, logfile

    Note: Changes to the Introscope Agent logger properties do NOT require a restart.