Enabling collection of transaction tracking and diagnostics data

On the Agent Configuration page, you can enable or disable the collection of transaction tracking and diagnostics data.

Before you begin

Ensure that you have registered the data collector. For details, see Registering the data collector.

Procedure

Complete the following steps to configure the data collection for each managed system.

  1. Log in to the Cloud APM console.
  2. From the navigation bar, click Configure icon System Configuration > Agent Configuration.
    The Agent Configuration page is displayed.
  3. Click the MS .NET tab.
  4. Select the check boxes of the managed systems for which you want to configure the data collection and complete any of the following actions from the Actions list.
    • To enable transaction tracking, click Set Transaction Tracking > Enabled. The status in the Transaction Tracking column is updated to Enabled for each selected managed system.
    • To enable the diagnostic data collection, select Set Diagnostic Mode and click the level that you want to set. The status in the Diagnostic Mode column is updated to display the specified level for each selected managed system.
      • Level 1: The HTTP module collects the request summary and request instance data.
      • Level 2: The HTTP module collects the request summary and request instance data. The profiler collects the method data and stack trace data.
    • To disable transaction tracking, click Set Transaction Tracking > Disabled. The status in the Transaction Tracking column is updated to Disabled for each selected managed system.
    • To disable diagnostic data collection, click Set Diagnostic Mode > Disabled. The status in the Diagnostic Mode column is updated to Disabled for each selected managed system.

Results

The data collection is configured for each managed system.

What to do next

Log in to the Cloud APM console to view the transaction tracking and diagnostics data that is collected by the agent in the dashboards. For information about using the Cloud APM console, see Starting the Cloud APM console.