Within the guidelines, snapshot retention is also subject to snapshot retention limits. Snapshot retention limits prevent excessive resource consumption at the node level:

• Originating transaction snapshots are limited to a maximum of 20 originating—5 concurrent—snapshots per node per minute.

• Continuing transaction snapshots are limited to a maximum of 200—100 concurrent—snapshots per node per minute.

Splunk AppDynamics applies snapshot retention limits to error transactions. As a result, not every error occurrence that is represented in an error count metric, for example, will have a corresponding snapshot. For error transactions, these limits apply:

• For a single transaction, there is a maximum of two snapshots per minute.
• Across transactions, the maximum is limited to five snapshots per minute (specified by the node property max-error-snapshots-per-minute).