Wily agent causes performance problems in application

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

We have APM Wily with version 10.7. APM Wily agent causes performance problem in one of the applications we monitor.The application runs in three different domains in our environment.The application team observed that this performance problem was resolved when APM Wily agent was removed.

How can we resolve the performance problem?

Environment

Release : 10.7.0

Component : APM Agents

Resolution

Disable the EJB tracing.

i.e: comment out the EJB tracers from toggles-typical.pbd file:

#######################
# EJB 2.0 Configuration
# ================

TurnOn: EJB2StubTracing
TurnOn: SessionBeanTracing
TurnOn: EntityBeanTracing
TurnOn: MessageDrivenBeanTracing

#######################
# EJB 3.0 Configuration
# ================
 
TurnOn: EJB3StubTracing
TurnOn: SessionBean3Tracing
TurnOn: EntityBean3Tracing
TurnOn: MessageDrivenBean3Tracing

and from apm-common.pbd file:

TurnOn: EJBFrontendBackendTrace