1. Install Prefix If you haven’t already, download Prefix and install it on your workstation. You can download Prefix and learn more about it on our website. 2. Locate the Stackify APM jar file Prefix profiles your Java code by adding a plug-in to your JVM. This is done by configuring the “javaagent” parameter on your JVM. To do this, you …
Azure Installation: Configure Azure Worker Roles
The Retrace .NET agent can automatically be installed with your Azure Cloud Service. Special logic exists so that if you enable our Retrace APM, it will automatically profile your main Worker Role process without having to create the ProfilerProcess.txt file specifying it. It also restarts your app after it enables the profiler. To install the agent, follow the directions in …
Troubleshoot: APM+ for .NET
This guide is intended to help users who are experiencing problems trying to configure their application to send APM data to Retrace. If you haven’t already, check out our documentation on installing Retrace for your appropriate application framework. This guide will provide you with a checklist of items that will help troubleshoot what is going on. If you are still not …
Prefix: Configuring Proxies
If you have a network architecture that requires internet traffic to flow through a proxy server, this guide will help you ensure that Prefix can communicate out through your proxy server seamlessly. Configuring the proxy is done by creating a file in the agent’s folder (C:Program Files (x86)Stackify Prefix by default) called CustomAgent.config. Below is an example of how to populate …
Web Log Monitoring: Configure Apache Applications
The Retrace Monitoring Agent can monitor the health of your Apache web application, including Requests/min vs Average Page Load time, HTTP Request Error Rate, and Apdex Satisfaction Score. To enable Retrace to monitor your Apache web application from the Monitoring Agent, there are a couple of things to make sure of. Configuring Apache’s apache2.conf Logging Settings Within apache2.conf or each …
Web Log Monitoring: Configure Nginx Applications
The Retrace Monitoring Agent can monitor the health of your web application, including Requests/min vs Average Page Load time, HTTP Request Error Rate, and Apdex Satisfaction Score. To enable Retrace to monitor your Nginx web application from the Monitoring Agent, there are a couple of things to make sure of. Configuring Access Logs and Log Formats The Retrace Monitoring Agent …
FAQ: Where Do I Find the Agent Log File?
There may be times when the support team requests the log file for the Stackify agent located on one of your servers. This log file contains information that can help with any support issues you might run into. Below are the instructions on how to locate these files for both Windows and Linux agents. For Windows Agents If you have …
FAQ: How Does the Linux Agent Work with cPanel?
cPanel by default sets the number of file descriptors to 100. In order for the Retrace agent to work correctly, the number of file descriptors needs to be set to 256. This article will show you how to set these limits so that the agent will work properly. Errors in the Log File To confirm that the issue the agent …