# The websphere active "thread pool max" metric has a decimal point in customer chart

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/the-websphere-active-thread-pool-max-metric-has-a-decimal-point-in-customer-chart/31512>\
**Category:** Dashboarding\
**Tags:** dynatrace-managed, dashboards-classic\
**Created:** [May 19, 2021, 8:16am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/the-websphere-active-thread-pool-max-metric-has-a-decimal-point-in-customer-chart/31512 "2021-05-19T08:16:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![owen\_chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ab097/32.png) [@owen\_chen](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/owen_chen)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 8:16am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/the-websphere-active-thread-pool-max-metric-has-a-decimal-point-in-customer-chart/31512/1 "2021-05-19T08:16:46Z")

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I have setting a websphere Active threads(Max) in customer chart.

But why does the active thread (Max) have a non-positive integer value? This is very strange to me. Has anyone encountered it before or can answer me why such a value appears?

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**Author:** ![harald\_berger](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/harald_berger/32/31754_2.png) [@harald\_berger](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/harald_berger)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 9:50am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/the-websphere-active-thread-pool-max-metric-has-a-decimal-point-in-customer-chart/31512/2 "2021-05-20T09:50:11Z")

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Hi,

ActiveCount is a&nbsp;BoundedRangeStatistic in PMI, so it may have a scale. A scale less than 1 can produce a fraction. Please check your PMI values in the Websphere performance viewer.

Best

Harry

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**Author:** ![owen\_chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ab097/32.png) [@owen\_chen](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/owen_chen)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 1:20am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/the-websphere-active-thread-pool-max-metric-has-a-decimal-point-in-customer-chart/31512/3 "2021-05-26T01:20:11Z")

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Hi,

> **[WSThreadPoolStats (IBM WebSphere Application Server, Release 8.5)](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-nd/8.5.5?topic=SSAW57_8.5.5%2Fcom.ibm.websphere.javadoc.doc%2Fweb%2Fapidocs%2Fcom%2Fibm%2Fwebsphere%2Fpmi%2Fstat%2FWSThreadPoolStats.html)**

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I refer to this file and see that the static value of Active thread is “int”, so I think the value should be an integer.

Or does Dynatrace process the values again?

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**Author:** ![harald\_berger](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/harald_berger/32/31754_2.png) [@harald\_berger](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/harald_berger)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 6:25am UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/the-websphere-active-thread-pool-max-metric-has-a-decimal-point-in-customer-chart/31512/4 "2021-05-26T06:25:55Z")

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Hi,

The value itself is int, but in PMI you can define a scale. If the scale is not an int, the result of activeCount will be decimal. Please check in the WAS admin console → performance viewer.

See

> **[Viewing PMI data with Tivoli Performance Viewer](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-nd/8.5.5?topic=activity-viewing-pmi-data-tivoli-performance-viewer)**
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> You can use the Tivoli Performance Viewer to view Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) data in chart or table form.

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Best

Harry