Add ConsecutiveErrors metric to new ASM metric in APM

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

ASM metrics in APM has "Consecutive Errors" metric. It is useful since it is aligned to ASM alert setup. Since the new ASM path has no "Consecutive Errors" metric, we are using "Status trend"  which makes it hard in aligning it to ASM alert, unlike "Consecutive Errors".

Is there a way to add "Consecutive Errors" to the new ASM metric path?

Is there an alternative metric we can use, the same way we're getting "Consecutive Errors" value?

 

Resolution

There is no concept of confirmed errors in  DX Synthetics/ASM Direct ingestion. 
Instead of performing a follow-up check, the confirmation is done by the fact that the Probe is executed from multiple locations at once. If you get more than one Probe error from a monitor at a given point in time, you can consider the error to be confirmed.

An example: If this was tried from 5s location and 2 failed and 3 passed, what is the probed failed value

At the location level, 'Probes failed' will be 0 in each of three passed locations and 1 in each of two failed locations.  At the monitor level, this aggregates to the 'Probes failed' value of 2.

This should answer what is possible in the DX Synthetic (next generation release) .