What is the 95thPercentile Metric and how to alert on it?

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

Not able to create Alert on the 95thPercentile Metric

 

 Trying to trigger the alert for these metrics when it breaches 95% of it.

Environment

Release : 10.0

Component : APM Agents

Cause

Alert cannot be created if the value goes above,

Per Engineering, percentile value

The percentile value of a distribution is a number where a percentage of the distribution
is less than or equal to that percentile value.

For an example, for a response time graph, the number at the 95th percentile
means 95 percent of the transactions in that time period had a response time at that
level or less.

Resolution

Alert cannot be created for this particular metric.