Need an APM Cluster Health Check

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

Please help review the health of the APM cluster and make suggestions on improvements

Environment

APM 10.8

Cause

Underperforming environment .

Resolution

Customer has EMs that are not keeping up with the  load and over a million traces which are above the recommended 500,000.

Additional Information

APM 10.8 hardware sizing and performance recommendations

suggests that 32GB on maximum heap for MOM and 8 GB for Collectors. Yet the Mom had 8 GB and the collectors had 8 and 10 GB.

The perflogs show that the two collectors are getting low on free heap. 

How to perform an APM Cluster Health Check has other suggestions on reducing metrics/traces and interpreting perflog values