A background task is a processing activity such as an administrative task or internal process that you want to monitor separately from primary business transactions, such as a cron job that backs up a server.

While the process may be important to your environment, it is likely that you do not want to monitor them similarly to primary business transactions. Background task performance metrics do not count toward the average response time of the tier or node.

During business transaction discovery, Splunk AppDynamics attempts to identify processes in the environment that are background tasks and classify them accordingly. You can modify the default configuration based on your requirements and manually change business transactions to background tasks.