Launch a Business Transaction Discovery Session

  1. Navigate to Configuration > Instrumentation and click the Transaction Detection tab.
  2. Click Live Preview.
  3. Click Start Discovery Session to start a Business Transaction Discovery session.
  4. Select the node to act as the source of the live data stream.Nodes are organized by tier. You can see which nodes have active agents and if there is a discovery session already running on a node.
    The Transaction Discovery page displays information about the discovery session lets you navigate among the available interactive transaction discovery tools:
    Note:

    The transaction discovery tool works as it did in previous versions for upgraded business applications. See .Business Transaction Discovery Sessions.

When you initiate a transaction discovery session on a Java node, the Rules pane displays the active transaction discovery rules that apply to the node. The right-hand pane lets you

When you launch a discovery session on a .NET node, you see the available tools: Uninstrumented Code detection and the Classes/Methods Browser.

During a discovery session, you can use other features of Splunk AppDynamics while the discovery process continues in the background. This is useful for busy environments with many active transactions. You can give Splunk AppDynamics a few minutes to complete the discovery. When you are ready to return to the Transaction Discovery page click Configuration > Instrumentation and click Live Preview button to resume your discovery session.