Handling Autoscaled applications

What problem does Autoscaling create for a monitoring solution

In the cloud environment, while the application auto-scales up, a new instance is added. While scaling down, these unused instances are still present in the user's account. This leads to the license being consumed by unused instances and new instances created not being added for monitoring even when the application auto-scales up again.

Solution to the above problem

• If an instance in an Auto-scaling environment remains inactive for five minutes, it will be auto-suspended.
• By default, if it continues to remain inactive and not activated within seven days, it will be automatically deleted.
• This duration can be customized in the APM Agent Configuration Profile, with options ranging from one to 15 days.

Supported cloud environments

Azure, AWS, Docker, and GCP.