Customizing your application for collection

To customize name-value pair collection and real-time runtime metrics collection results, set and manage name-value pairs and ECB owner names in your application.

About this task

You can start simple and grow your usage over time.

Procedure

  1. Install the sample analytics pipeline and run the replay scripts to learn the metrics and how the sample dashboards work.
  2. On your test system, modify your middleware or sample applications to set the horizontal name-value pair, for example, MsgType, for a few different message types. For more information, see Horizontal name-value pairs.
  3. Modify the program configuration file to automatically set the ECB owner high-level qualifier to a code package for a few entry points or module names. For more information, see Set ECB owner names.
  4. Start real-time runtime metrics collection.
  5. Run some regression traffic to see how the analysis reacts to your applications.
  6. Consider how to expand this usage to all messages and code packages on your production system to monitor production traffic. To minimize application changes, set name-value pairs that you want in your middleware or in your code that initially parses a message and routes the message to the correct software package for processing.
  7. Enhance the analysis to meet your operational and business needs by adding additional name-value pairs, optimizing any activate on receipt (AOR) application architectures, and expanding metrics that are collected and analyzed.