Transaction tracking
The transaction tracking feature enables topology views and instance level transaction monitoring. By distributed tracking infrastructure, transaction tracking can detect bottleneck issues including latency problems and errors, and filter or sort traces based on application. Transaction tracking can also filter views based on length of trace, timestamp, interactions, errors and transaction comparisons.
About this task
- Troubleshoot an issue by looking at a specific request flow through the system.
- Quickly identify the bottleneck which caused the bad experience.
- You can select a single request from the filtered request type shown in the Service dependencies topology.
- From the Service dependencies topology view, you can expand this instance
level topology to view the full topology in context.
The Service dependencies view in the Kubernetes Service dashboard shows what application is calling this service and what this service is calling, one step at a time. This view shows service-to-service relationships to help you debug issues across the dependency tree. For example, if the symptoms presented in the Latency and Error line charts are bad but the Traffic and Saturation did not change, you can search this view to find out what is being called. Click a service to open its dashboard. For more information about the Service dependencies topology, see Service dependencies topology view.
- View tracing data for the services.
Agent or data collector | Enabled by default | How to enable or disable |
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Go data collector | Customizing the Go data collector | |
J2SE data collector | Customizing the J2SE data collector | |
Liberty data collector | Customizing the Liberty data collector | |
Node.js data collector | Customizing the Node.js data collector | |
Python data collector | Customizing the Python data collector | |
Ruby data collector | Customizing the Ruby data collector | |
WebSphere® Applications agent | Configuring the data collector interactively | |
DEM
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DEM depends on traction tracking to view browser data and metrics in topology. Do not disable TT for DEM. |