Agent 3.0 PREVIEW.4 In Process Agent - Custom JMX Metrics with Boolean Values Not Collected

[zoomingrocket]

Using PREVIEW.4 in process java agent with custom jmx metrics configured in json for collection. JMX Metric will show in Metrics list until first time a value is set either to true or false and it will stop showing up in Application Insights

Request to either provide a mechanism to define type of jmx attribute so that a translation of boolean to numeric can be done or auto parse

[trask]

Hi @zoomingrocket do you have a single jmx metric that sometimes reports true/false and sometimes reports a numeric value? Curious what is the specific metric? Trying to think how best to capture that.

[zoomingrocket]

@trask - No i have multiple boolean JMX Metrics that report true/false values, never numeric. Generally used for state indicators whether certain component in JVM is up or down. We are noticing that upon server startup the attribute is not having a value set so attribute shows up in Metric list and when a value is set to either false or true it drops off the Metric list from App Insight. So i was wondering if we can specify the type of attribute in ApplicationInsights.json so that true/false can interpreted as 1/0 numeric values in metric palette and alerts can be setup on same.

[trask]

This is supported now in Preview.7