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Question by Andrew D. · Sep 09, 2014 at 08:03 AM ·

Sensor Limit

Is there any guidance on the number of Deployed Sensors for a single agent? Should sensor groups be turned off to keep the Deployed Sensor count under a certain limit? Did not see any info on this in the docs.

 

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Answer by Andreas G. · Sep 10, 2014 at 01:23 AM

The number of deployed sensors should not impact whehter your JVM crashes or not. If you really experience crashes I suggest you open a support ticket. It "should not" have to do with the number of deployed sensors

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Answer by Andreas G. · Sep 09, 2014 at 05:05 PM

Hi Andrew

They key metric is not necessarily the number of deployed sensors but the size of your PurePaths. If you look at the Deployment Guide you will see that one of the key metrics is "Nodes per PurePath". In Step 1 - Collect Sizing Data it says that an average PurePath in production environment should have between 10 and 50 nodes. In a testing environment it can be higher. Of course - all of this depends on the number of transactions you process in a given time interval.

The general Best Practice for custom sensors is to only instrument those methods that give you business or root cause context, e.g: methods where you need to capture arguments or return values or methods of critical APIs or Interfaces that you need to monitor for SLA reasons

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I ask because one of our tier's jvms crash when we add dynatrace agents. To date we have not been able to figure out the conflict. I noticed that most of our agents have ~5k sensors deployed but the problematic agents have ~40k. Seems like a significant difference.

None of the purepaths have node sizes greater than 300. And 1% of the sample I took are over 50 nodes (per the size column in the purepath dashboard). So those numbers seem close to guidance. The documentation mentions an average node size. Is that a metric dynatrace calculates for me that I view?

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