New Relic, Inc.

Todd West

Sebastian Ramirez

Erika Arnold

Michael LaSpina

Graham Fuller

A system provides for tail-based sampling of span data at the trace level. The system may include a circuitry, such as one or more servers, that execute applications, agents, and a trace manager. The agents generate span data of operations performed by the applications. The trace manager receives the span data from the agents, and groups the operations defined by the span data into traces. The trace manager determines a selected subset of the traces for span data sampling and an unselected subset of the traces excluded from the span data sampling by comparing one or more trace characteristics of the traces with one or more trace criteria. The trace manager discards unselected span data of the unselected subset of the traces and provide selected span data of the selected subset of the traces to a monitoring system via a network.

Tail-based span data sampling

A system performs discovery and instrumentation of processes of an application based on process performance. The system includes one or more processors configured to: determine a duration score for a process indicating a relationship between a duration time for the process and a transaction time for a transaction including the process; determine an instrumentation threshold value; determine whether the duration score satisfies the instrumentation threshold value; and in response to determining that the duration score satisfies the instrumentation threshold value, instrument a second process invoked by the process to receive a second duration time for the second process when execution of the second process is detected in a second transaction trace of a second transaction. In some embodiments, the system prunes instrumented processes that primarily invoke subprocesses, and are thus unimportant for performance monitoring.

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