How Many API Credits does the APM Cloud Monitor Agent use?

Products

• CA Application Synthetic Monitor (ASM)
• CA App Synthetic Monitor
• NIMSOFT CLOUD USER EXPERIENCE MONITOR

Issue/Introduction

Question:

     How Many API Credits does the APM Cloud Monitor Agent or APM App Synthetic Monitor Agent use?

 

Answer:  

     The number of App Synthetic Monitor API credits consumed by the APM Cloud Monitor Agent is dependent on a few polling configurations present on the agent as

     well as the number of folders present within your ASM account. The relevant polling properties can be found in the

     <AgentHome>\CloudMon\conf\APMCloudMonitor.properties under the heading "Cloud Monitor Polling Properties".

 

     Here is the default configuration:

     ################################# 

     # Cloud Monitor Polling Properties 

     # Various polling related parameters affecting timeliness and efficiency of APM Cloud Monitor agent 

     # You must restart the agent before changes to these properties take effect. 

     # How often (in seconds) cloud monitor is checked for log and public status page metric updates 

     apmcm.cloudmonitor.metrics.period = 60 

     # How often (in seconds) cloud monitor is checked for folder metric updates 

     apmcm.cloudmonitor.folderstats.period = 1800 

     # How often (in seconds) cloud monitor is checked for new global configuration data (changes in list of monitors or list of checkpoints) 

     apmcm.cloudmonitor.global.period = 3600 

 

     Log and PSP metrics are obtained using the rule_log and rule_PSP API calls respectively. Each API call is 1 credit, so using the default polling period of 60

     seconds (apmcm.cloudmonitor.metrics.period = 60), each call will be made 1440 times in a day. Folder level metrics are obtained using the rule_stats API call.  

     This API call is also 1 credit and uses a default polling of 30 mins (apmcm.cloudmonitor.folderstats.period = 1800), resulting in 48 checks per day made on a per

     folder basis. Finally, there are 24 API calls made every day to verify Global Parameters(apmcm.cloudmonitor.global.period = 3600) using the API commands

     rule_get and cp_list (a free API command).  Using the out of the box configuration, this would give an API credit usage of 2904 +(48 * Number of Folders) API Calls

     per agent process per day. Please note that this number will can vary though with agent restarts and disconnections. 

 

Additional Information:

 

     For more information regarding the ASM API, please see: http://api.cloudmonitor.ca.com/1.6/

 

Environment

Release: APMCMB99000-8.3-App Synthetic Monitor-Basic Option
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