MSMQ Queue metrics are not reported by PerfmonCollectorAgent even though we have defined the filter to include them

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

We have added MSMQ counters reported by perfmon in the server to the PerfmonCollectorAgent filter property in the Introscope agent profile 

 

introscope.agent.perfmon.metric.filterPattern=|Processor|*|*,|.NET Data Provider*|*|*,|.NET CLR*|{osprocessname}|*,|.NET CLR Data|*|*,|Process|{osprocessname}|*,|ASP.NET*|*,|MSMQ Queue|*|*

 

Agent service has been restarted.

 

Still MSMQ metrics are not populated in CA APM Metric browser.

Environment

Release : 10.7.0

Component : APM Agents

Cause

The agent log showed the metric limit is being reached before it browses the MSMQ metrics

 

5/24/21 02:42:40 PM GMT+02 [VERBOSE] [IntroscopeAgent.PerfMonService] Metric limit of 1000 has been reached

...

5/24/21 02:42:43 PM GMT+02 [DEBUG] [IntroscopeAgent.PerfMonService] Browsing Category counters with instances MSMQ Queue

Resolution

 

There are two options available here (customer chose #2)

 

1 - increase the metric limit by uncommenting and modifying the following property value in the agent profile

 

#introscope.agent.perfmon.metric.limit=1000

 

care should be taken though as querying the perfmon counters can affect system performance if excessive

 

2 - filter the metrics collected - do you need / are you interested in all the counters that re reported by default - would it make more sense to cut back on what is currently reported from the existing property value

 

introscope.agent.perfmon.metric.filterPattern=|Processor|*|*,|.NET Data Provider*|*|*,|.NET CLR*|{osprocessname}|*,|.NET CLR Data|*|*,|Process|{osprocessname}|*,|ASP.NET*|*,|MSMQ Queue|*|*