Automatic transaction detection rules have a Transaction Monitoring Enabledcheckbox for each entry point type to control automatic discovery. By default, all entry point types are enabled. When you disable discovery for an entry point type, the agent stops counting, measuring, and recording all activity for that entry point type for the scope where the rule is applied.

Following are the cases when you might want to disable monitoring:

• You know that you don't want to monitor any business transactions of a specific entry point type.
• You want to monitor transactions from a downstream call.

For example, consider an application where Servlets implement Spring Beans and you are interested in monitoring the transaction starting at the Spring Bean level. Disable Servlet monitoring and the auto-detection rule for Spring Beans will be the entry point for the transaction.