Agent Property: introscope.autoprobe.enable

Products

• CA Application Performance Management SaaS

Issue/Introduction

Please clarify what is autoprobe ? and what happens when set to 'false'?

introscope.autoprobe.enable=false

Environment

Release : CA APM Introscope

Component : Wily Java  Agent 

Cause

Documentation 

Resolution

introscope.autoprobe.enable

This property enables and disables AutoProbe.

 

"Autoprobe' is the entry point to instrument classes.

 

When the property set to 'true'  it loads the pbd files and decide what to instrument and so on.

 

When the property set to false , the  autoprobe is disabled. It means,  the Agent will load but will not instrument any classes / methods. 

 

But there are some features do not need instrumentation will get metrics even the autoprobe is disabled. Like EM host and Port. 

The features need instrumentation will not gather metrics when its disabled.