What is "Background thread" ?

owen_chen — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:17:28 GMT

Hi Everyone，

I would like to ask about the meaning of the Background thread, what kind of transaction will be the Background thread? Is it a timed batch job?

Because when I observed "Detailed CPU consumption", I found that the "background thread CPU" was higher in a certain period than at other times.

Check out "Method hotspots" and saw "Request A" here (Background thread), but my client said that Request A should be in another service and not in the Background thread.

So how should I explain it to the client?

PS: I have a reference to this document, but I still don't quite understand it

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/how-to-use-dynatrace/services/service-detection-and-naming#background-activity-services

Re: What is "Background thread" ?

josef_schiessl — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 08:20:16 GMT

Background thread CPU refers to everything that is happening not on a monitored request (purepath).

If we have a purepath for it, it will be Service request CPU.

If it makes sense for the customer, he can create a custom service for a method he is interested in and then we would capture purepaths for that method and the CPU value would move from background cpu to service cpu of that service.

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