thoughts on how to measure/trend a method that runs for hours?
We have a large ETL system that we are trying to hook dynaTrace up to. We have a use case to provide timings on how long it takes to process a entire file, which can actually take several hours to complete. In this use case we don't really care about purepaths – just the ability to track a measure tied to the file processing entry point. Dropping down a level, which would normally be our best-practice recommendation, doesn't work so well since that is the time to process a record, and there will be millions of those, which ultimately doesn't seem to lend itself to do anything useful for us.
Are there any thoughts/best practices on how to get that type of timing data?
I suggest creating your own JMX Measure - meaning - that your application delivers the response time. You can then capture that JMX value with dynaTrace
my 2 cents 
Ok, I got it. Thanks. Didn't think this was a native option.
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