No new entry point or backend will be discovered

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

Java Agents started to log below message, what it means?

7/12/20 01:57:52 AM EDT [WARN] [IntroscopeAgent.IntelligentInstrumentation] No new entry point or backend will be discovered, because number of automatically detected boundary points have reached a clamp value of 60, as defined in introscope.agent.autopersist.instrumentation.count.max

Environment

Application Performance Management Java Agent 10.7 release.

Cause

It is due to the clamp setting under Agent configuration.

Resolution

This message means that automatically detected boundary points got clamped after report more than 60 metrics in a period as set under IntroscopeAgent.Profile, you can adjust the setting as below:

# Maximum number of traced entry points and automatic backends that can be persisted in the AutoPersist pbd.
# Change to this property takes effect immediately and does not require the 
# managed application to be restarted.
introscope.agent.autopersist.instrumentation.count.max=60

You can raise the value from 60 to 150 and see the results.
Change to this property takes effect immediately.