Enable Automatic Discovery for Background Tasks

At transaction discovery, a transaction is categorized as a background task based on a setting in a custom match rule that matches the transaction.

Splunk AppDynamics includes preconfigured match rules for Java frameworks that are likely to be background tasks, including for JCronTab, JavaTimer, Cron4J and Quartz frameworks. The match rules are disabled by default.

You can enable the match rules, modify them, or create your own custom match rules to have matched transactions categorized as background transactions.

To enable background task detection configuration:

  1. From the application or custom tier level configuration, edit an existing match rule or create a new one.
  2. Enable the rule, and check the Background Task option to business transactions discovered by this rule categorized as background tasks.