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also, added documentation for the sample_rate config, and reduced the flush_interval setting to 10s closes elastic#153
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| We invested and continue to invest a lot of effort to keep the overhead of using Elastic APM as low as possible. | ||
| But because every deployment is different, we added some knobs you can turn to adapt it to your specific needs. |
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hmm yes, "there are" seems better
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| === Transaction Sample Rate | ||
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| The most straight forward way to reduce the overhead of the agent is to tell the agent to do less. | ||
| If you set the <<config-transaction-sample-rate,`transaction_sample_rate`>> to a value bellow `1.0`, |
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| If you set the <<config-transaction-sample-rate,`transaction_sample_rate`>> to a value bellow `1.0`, | ||
| the agent will randomly sample only a subset of transactions. | ||
| If a transaction is not sampled, the agent has to do a lot less work, | ||
| as we only record the overall transaction time and the result for unsampled transactions. |
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| To reduce the load on the APM server, the agent does not send every transaction up as it happens. | ||
| Instead, it queues them up, and flushes the queue periodically, or when it reaches a maximum size, using a background thread. | ||
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| While this reduces the load on the APM server (and to a certain extent on the agent), |
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also, added documentation for the sample_rate config, and reduced the flush_interval setting to 10s closes #153
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also, added documentation for the sample_rate config, and reduced
the flush_interval setting to 10s