CA APM monitor

This section explains how to use the CA Application Performance Management (APM) monitor. The CA APM monitor is a Web application monitor that lets you detect and diagnose performance problems in your complex or enterprise environments.

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Set up the CA APM monitor

This task describes how to set up the CA APM monitor.

1. Prerequisites

   Below is a list of prerequisites that are required to use this monitor:

   • You need to specify a cloud server that offers the monitoring service.

   • You need to use a supported version of CA APM. For the supported server versions, see the Integrations section of the System Requirements guide.

   • If you are using a cloud-based CA APM solution with a corporate proxy on your network, you need to set up a web proxy to collect data from it. To do this, on the LoadRunner Enterprise server, open the bin\MEApplication.exe.config file in a text editor, and add the following under the configuration section of the file:

     <system.net>
       <defaultProxy enabled="true">
        <proxy proxyaddress="http://<PROXY_ADDRESS>:<PORT>" bypassonlocal="True" />
       </defaultProxy>
     </system.net>

2. Select a resources folder.

   Select a resources folder for the monitor profile in the resources tree, or create a new folder as follows:

   1. In the top banner, click the module name or the dropdown arrow and select Assets > Monitors.

   2. Click the New Folder button and enter a name for the monitor resources folder.

3. Create a monitor profile.

   1. Click the New Monitor Profile button , and make sure Monitor Profile is selected.

   2. Enter a name and optional description for the monitor profile, and click Save. An empty monitor profile is added to the selected resources folder.

   3. Select the monitor profile you just added and click the Add Monitor button .

   4. In the Monitor Type Selection tab, select the CA APM monitor type and click Next.

   5. In the Monitor Definition tab, enter the server details:

      UI Elements	Description
      Server ID	The name or URL of the cloud server that offers the monitoring service. For a list of the supported formats, see the Support Matrix.
      Agent Name	The name of the agent from which the measurements are taken. The server needs to recognize this agent in order to retrieve measurements from it. Adding an agent to a server is the responsibility of the APM admin.
      Token	A user-specific security token generated from the CA APM.
      Port	The port on which the server communicates.
      Use HTTPS	We recommend using a secure connection to the CA APM server.

   6. Click Get Counters to display a list of available metrics and counters per metric from the selected CA APM application. You can get all types of metrics including application, user experience, database, and server metrics.

      Select the measurements that you want to monitor, and then click to add the counters to the Selected Counters table.

      During runtime you can display up to 100 (approximately) CA APM measurements.

      For detailed information on the performance measurements that CA APM can monitor, refer to the CA APM documentation.

   7. Click Save. The monitor details are displayed in the Monitors tab for the selected monitor profile.

4. Associate the monitor with your test.

   For details, see Step 3: Associate monitors with your test.

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Notes and limitations

The following are notes and limitations when using the CA APM monitor:

REST API support	CA APM does not support REST API calls for versions earlier than 10.7.
Delay displaying data	The default sampling rate for a cloud-based CA APM solution is every 15 seconds. This means that data is slightly delayed in arriving relative to other monitors which provide a much more granular data sampling. While this might not affect the data flow during the run, it affects the time it takes to fetch data from CA APM when configuring the monitor profile.

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See also:

• Monitors