Using custom fields to filter traffic, export data, or monitor error conditions
The BMC Real End User Experience Monitoring Software Edition product provides system data fields that describe your traffic. You can create custom fields to use as specific parameters to:
- Filter captured traffic
- Export data
- Monitor error conditions
- Create other custom fields
This section presents the following topics about custom fields:
- System custom fields on the Analyzer
- Adding custom fields on the Real User Analyzer and Collector
- User and group identification
- Defining traffic extraction rules on the Analyzer
- Deleting custom fields on the Analyzer
You can use custom fields for differentiation and identification. For example:
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BMC Real End User Experience Monitoring Software Edition provides the following system custom fields that cover the most frequently used fields. You can modify these fields but cannot delete or turn them off.
Types of system custom fields:
- Primitive — For capturing data from request and response headers and content
- Object — For capturing object data
- Page — For capturing page data
- Session — For capturing session data
You can create custom fields from the following data sources found in user traffic:
- URI query parameters
POST
command parameters- Cookie parameters
- HTTP headers
- Request and response content
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