The documentation doesn't state it and I'd by default assume that APM's sample rate would only affect spans but not errors. But what I've recently observed was that a NullPointerException was thrown by JVM when trying to invoke a method on null reference in our code (i.e. it's in a package configure…

Sample rate should not impact capturing exceptions. JAX-RS plugin currently only sets the transaction name to match the resource method. Transaction is created with Servlet instrumentation, name is just set by jaxrs instrumentation. Thus in this case, because the ExceptionMapper gets the thrown e…

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Does Java APM sample rate affect exceptions?

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Sylvain_Juge (Sylvain Juge) July 8, 2020, 7:38am 4

Yes, that's exactly what happens with Spring @ExceptionHandler, and we suggest to apply the same approach (APM dont capture exception from @ExceptionHandler).

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