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

Article Id: 35405

Status: Published

Updated On: 14-02-2018 07:40

Legacy Id: TEC1905514

Products:

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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