Snapshot Method Calls Report

Overview

Snapshot Method Calls report provides information about Call Graph data for all Snapshots in APM Applications.

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Snapshot Method Calls report is produced when:

• Job file included at least one APM application Target.Type=APM
• Metadata is extracted via Input.DetectedEntities=true
• Snapshots are extracted via Input.Snapshots=true
• Report is requested via Output.Snapshots=true

Report File Locations

Snapshot Method Calls report has the following file name:

Report\CallGraphs.<Job File Name>.<Start Date and Time in yyyyMMddHHmm>.<Number Of Hours Spanned By Report>.xlsx

For example:

CallGraphs.demo1demo2.2017123001-2017123003.xlsx

Data File Locations

The data for the report is in the following files:

• Report\SNAP\snapshots.methodcalllines.csv

Data Schema

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Report Contents

Data	Pivot
1.Parameters
2.Contents
3.Controllers
4.Appplications
11.Method Calls	11.Calls.Type, 11.Calls.Location, 11.Calls.Timeline
12.Call Occurrences	12.Call Occurrences.Type

1.Parameters

This sheet describes the parameters of the extraction and reporting job that produced this report.

Column	Data Type	Purpose
Controller	URL	Controller that was queried
UserName	String	User that was used to retrieve data from the Controller
Application	String	Name of Application that was queried
ApplicationID	Integer	ID of Application in Controller
ApplicationType	String	Type of the Application

2.Contents

This sheet provides quick access to the contents of this report and provides at-a-glance number of rows in each of the sheet's tables.

Column	Data Type	Purpose
Sheet Name	String	Name of the sheet in the report
Num Entities	Integer	Number of Entities in that sheet
Link	Hyperlink	Link to the sheet in the report

3.Controllers

This sheet provides information about Controllers covered by this report.

Column	Data Type	Purpose
Controller	URL	Controller that was queried
Version	String	Version of the Controller
VersionDetail	String	Full version string of the Controller
NumApps	Integer	Number of all APM Applications registered in the Controller
NumAPMApps	Integer	Number of APM Applications registered in the Controller
NumWEBApps	Integer	Number of WEB Applications registered in the Controller
NumMOBILEApps	Integer	Number of MOBILE Applications registered in the Controller
NumIOTApps	Integer	Number of IoT Applications registered in the Controller
NumSIMApps	Integer	Number of SIM Applications registered in the Controller
NumBIQApps	Integer	Number of BIQ Applications registered in the Controller
NumDBApps	Integer	Number of DB Applications registered in the Controller
ControllerLink	URL	Link to Controller

4.Applications

This sheet provides Snapshot summary information about all Applications in all Controllers covered by this report.

Column	Data Type	Purpose
Controller	URL	Controller that was queried
ApplicationName	String	Name of Application
NumSnapshots	Integer	Total number of Snapshots
NumSnapshotsNormal	Integer	Total number of Snapshots with Normal user experience
NumSnapshotsSlow	Integer	Total number of Snapshots with Slow user experience
NumSnapshotsVerySlow	Integer	Total number of Snapshots with Very Slow user experience
NumSnapshotsStall	Integer	Total number of Snapshots with Stall user experience
NumSnapshotsError	Integer	Total number of Snapshots with Error user experience
HasActivity	Boolean	Whether this Entity had any activity
From	DateTime	Beginning of time range queried, local time
To	DateTime	End of time range queried, local time
FromUtc	DateTime	Beginning of time range queried, UTC time
ToUtc	DateTime	End of time range queried, UTC time
Duration	Integer	Duration of time range queried, in minutes
ApplicationID	Integer	ID of Application in Controller
DetailLink	Hyperlink	Link to the Entity Details report
ControllerLink	URL	Link to Controller for this time range
ApplicationLink	URL	Link to Application in Controller for this time range

11.Method Calls

This sheet provides information about every method in all Segments in all Snapshots that occurred in the specified time range in all Applications in all Controllers covered by this report. It is equivalent to the Call Graph view of the Snapshot/Segment in AppDynamics UI.

Column	Data Type	Purpose
Controller	URL	Controller that was queried
ApplicationName	String	Name of Application
TierName	String	Name of Tier where this Business Transaction started
TierType	String	Type of Tier where this Business Transaction started
NodeName	String	Name of Node where this Business Transaction started
AgentType	String	Type of Agent reporting to this Tier
BTName	String	Name of Business Transaction
BTType	String	Type of Business Transaction
SegmentUserExperience	String	User Experience (NORMAL, SLOW, VERY_SLOW, STALL, ERROR) of Segment
SnapshotUserExperience	String	User Experience (NORMAL, SLOW, VERY_SLOW, STALL, ERROR) of Snapshot
RequestID	GUID	Unique ID of this Snapshot
SegmentID	Integer	Unique ID of this Segment in this Snapshot
Occurred	DateTime	When Method Call was made, local time
OccurredUtc	DateTime	When Method Call was made, UTC time
Type	String	Type of the method as determined by AppDynamics APM agent (POJO, POCO, SERVLET, SPRING_BEAN, JS, etc)
Framework	String	Type of framework as determined by indexing process using mapping from MethodNamespaceTypeMapping.csv
FullNameIndent	String	Full name of each call method, indented with same number of spaces as it is deep in the specific Segment’s call graph
Exec	Integer	Execution time of this method only
ExecTotal	Integer	Execution time of this method and its children
ExecToHere	Integer	Execution time elapsed up to this method
Wait	Integer	Wait time of this method only
WaitTotal	Integer	Wait time of this method and its children
Block	Integer	Block time of this method only
BlockTotal	Integer	Block time of this method and its children
CPU	Integer	CPU time of this method only
CPUTotal	Integer	CPU time of this method and its children
ExecRange	String	String representing bucket into which Exec fits
ExitCalls	String	List of Exit Calls made by this method
NumExits	Integer	Number of Exit Calls made by this method
HasErrors	Boolean	Whether any Exit Calls made by this method resulted in error
SEPs	String	List of Service Endpoints that were applied to this method
NumSEPs	Integer	Number of Service Endpoints that were applied to this method
MIDCs	String	List of Business Data captured via MIDCs. Only available if Input\Configuration=true, and if MIDCs are configured
NumMIDCs	Integer	Number of MIDCs configured on this method
NumChildren	Integer	Number of child method calls for this method
ElementType	String	Type of the call graph element, one of the following: Root – beginning of call graph Stem – middle of call graph, only 1 child Branch – middle of the call graph, more than 1 child Leaf – end of the call graph. Likely an exit, but may be non-trivial burn of time doing something
SequenceNumber	Integer	Line number in this Segment’s call graph
Depth	Integer	Depth of this method from the root element of Call Graph
PrettyName	String	More user-friendly name of the class/method combo that sometimes is displayed in the call graph, for things like Servlets and JMS
FullName	String	Combination of Class, Method and LineNumber
Class	String	Class of the Class/Method combo
Method	String	Method of the Class/Method combo
LineNumber	Integer	Line number of the Class/Method combo, if it was available and captured
ApplicationID	Integer	ID of Application in Controller
TierID	Integer	ID of Tier in Application
NodeID	Integer	ID of Node in Application
BTID	Integer	ID of Business Transaction in Application

11.Calls.Type

This sheet uses data in 11.Method Calls sheet as source for pivot table to enable summary reporting and ad-hoc drill-down.

Default configuration provides breakdown of Method Call Lines by Type, groups them by their Business Transaction and summarizes them by Type of call and Framework of call by Average Execution Duration.

Columns	Rows	Values	Filters
Type
Framework
	Controller
	ApplicationName
	AgentType
	TierName
	BTName
		Exec (Average)
			ElementType
			NumChildren
			NumExits
			Depth
			ExecRange

Here is an example showing all the method calls that have no exits, and fall into range of 2000-5000ms:

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Expanding that report shows all the calls to java.lang.Thread:Sleep:

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Here is another example of all method calls with 2 exits that fall into 10000 to 15000 ms range:

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11.Calls.Location

This sheet uses data in 11.Method Calls sheet as source for pivot table to enable summary reporting and ad-hoc drill-down.

Default configuration provides breakdown of Method Calls by Type and Framework (determined using lookup of Class name via MethodNamespaceTypeMapping.csv), groups them by their Business Transaction and summarizes Average Execution Time by the Execution Range.

Columns	Rows	Values	Filters
ExecRange
	Type
	Framework
	FullName
	Controller
	ApplicationName
	AgentType
	TierName
	BTName
		Exec (Count)
			ElementType
			NumChildren
			NumExits
			Depth

Here is an example showing breakdown of all the calls in Execution Duration buckets grouped by Type and Framework across 2 Applications across 2 Controllers:

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Drilling down to specific Framework, we can have breakdown of the types of the code that may be slow:

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The detail can be filtered further, here looking into bucket between 1000 and 2000 milliseconds:

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11.Calls.Timeline

This sheet uses data in 11.Method Calls sheet as source for pivot table to enable summary reporting and ad-hoc drill-down.

Default configuration provides per-minute summary of Average Durations of specific method calls, by Type and Framework.

Columns	Rows	Values	Filters
Type
Framework
	Occurred
		Exec (Average)
			ElementType
			NumChildren
			NumExits
			Depth
			Class
			Method
			FullName
			BTName
			ExecRange

Here is an example showing all types of method calls across 3 hours. JS is clearly the slowest: Full Size

Filtering down to Type=JS, we can see that the slowest calls happened during the 7PM hour:

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Filtering on Type=POJO and Framework=AppDynamics, we can see how the distribution of method calls to this type of calls looks like across 3 hours:

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Filtering on Method Call elements with 1 child, but no exits, falling in the range between 2000 and 5000 milliseconds, we can see them occurring early in 7 and 8 am:

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