Enable or Disable Metric Tracking
When metric tracking is enabled, each metric update generates a tracking record in the metric’s tracking table. This data can be useful, depending on your project needs. The tracking records record historical values.
Tracking tables are also used to store tracking field values.
The data is used when Dashboard users drill down on a chart data point. The underlying metric data for that data point displays in tabular form on the search page. For more information on data point, see TIBCO BusinessEvents Views User’s Guide.
If you do not want to use this feature, you can disable tracking, that is, stop the software from writing data to the tracking table. The tracking table itself remains so that you can enable and disable tracking as needed.
You can enable or disable all tracking. You can also enable or disable tracking for individual metrics.
Disabling tracking reduces the size of the cache and backing store (depending on configuration) and, in high throughput applications, can improve performance.
In Dashboard the drilldown link is still available when tracking is disabled, but drilling to greater detail is not available.
- Tracking Fields
- Disabling metric tracking also disables use of tracking fields. (For an introduction to tracking fields, see Tracking Fields.)
- Disabling metric tracking does not affect ontology function arguments
- If metric tracking is disabled, tracking field data is not saved and is not available for display on the search page. However tracking fields are still listed in the ontology functions that compute metric data. This means that you can enable and disable tracking without having to reconfigure compute functions in rules. See Metric Ontology Functions.