For a script-based CLI application that executes in a loop, perhaps fetching items from a database or remote service, you may want the agent to detect every iteration of the loop as a separate business transaction. In this case, enclose the code inside the loop within appdynamics_start_transaction() and appdynamics_end_transaction() calls.

If you do not do this, the agent will aggregate each iteration through the loop into a single business transaction.

In the following example, the agent detects a business transaction named getItem for every iteration.

while (true){
appdynamics_start_transaction("getItem", AD_CLI);
//your code goes here
. . .
appdynamics_end_transaction();
}