Public API ignore transaction option

Using Spring Boot, all @Scheduled methods are recorded. I have a method that fires regularly and I want to ignore it. An option to ignore should be added, like @IgnoreTransaction.

Even if I get the transaction using ElasticApm.currentTransaction() there is no way to cancel it.

[eyalkoren]

And I really want to avoid not ending a transaction/span, as this can cause memory leaks from what I have read in other discussions.

No risk for memory leaks, unless you accumulate hard references to them and never release. The leak we are referring to is when spans/transactions are recycled and used after, but in new versions this can’t happen as any span/transaction touched by the API is not recycled.

BTW, the messaging transactions may be ended quite quickly after the message is submitted to the queue, but you can still create async child spans from them and they will have the proper parent-child relations. I hope you find the way to do what you need. Start by eliminating your custom transaction creation. Good luck!

[eyalkoren]

I agree that an API to ignore a transaction could be useful…

Regardless, our scheduling tracing looks for classes only in the defined application_packages - maybe you can make use of that if the transactions you want to ignore are in a specific package.

In case you don’t want such transactions at all, you can also disable the scheduled instrumentation.