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Configuring the HttpClient Monitoring Item

On the Modify HttpClient Monitoring Configuration page, set the following URL normalization parameters:

• Collection Interval: The default value is 60s and cannot be changed.
• URL normalization is used to aggregate URLs that meet the conditions you set. For example, http://localhost/rest/v1/test/123 and http://localhost/rest/v1/test/234 can be aggregated into http://localhost/rest/v1/test/{id}.

Figure 1 Configuring the HttpClient monitoring item

Normalization Methods

There are four normalization methods: Startwith, Endwith, Include, and Regex.

• Startwith: URLs starting with a certain expression are counted as normalized URLs. For example, URLs starting with http://127.0.0.1/v1 are aggregated into /v1/test/{id}, as shown in Figure 1.
• Endwith: URLs ending with a certain expression are counted as normalized URLs. For example, URLs ending with /test are aggregated into /{id}/test, as shown in Figure 1.
• Include: URLs containing a certain expression are counted as normalized URLs. For example, URLs containing test are aggregated into /test/{id}, as shown in Figure 1.
• Regex: URLs that meet the wildcard expression are counted as normalized URLs. For details about the wildcard rules, see Table 1.

  Table 1 Wildcard description

  Wildcard	Description
  ?	Matches any character.
  *	Matches zero, one, or more characters.
  **	Matches zero, one, or more directories.

Usage Example

The following is an example:

URL Path	Description
/app/p?ttern	Matches files such as /app/pattern and /app/pAttern, excluding /app/pttern.
/app/*.x	Matches all .x files in the app directory.
/**/example	Matches /app/example, /app/foo/example, and /example.
/app/**/dir/file.*	Matches /app/dir/file.jsp, /app/foo/dir/file.htm, /app/foo/bar/dir/file.pdf, and /app/dir/file.c.
/**/*.jsp	Matches all .jsp files.

Parent topic: Application Monitoring Configuration