Select Profiling Task: Customize Filter Sets Dialog Box

Use to customize existing filter sets and to create new custom filter sets. You use a filter set to limit the classes that are instrumented when analyzing application performance.

Element Description

Defined Filter Sets.

Displays the filter sets that are available when profiling an application. Use the buttons to the right of the list to add and remove filter sets and to change the order that the filter sets are displayed in the Filter drop-down list in the configuration pane.

Select a filter set in the list to see the set name, type, and global filters included in the filter set displayed in the Filter Set Properties section. A filter set can include more than one global filter.

Filter Set Properties.

Displays the properties of the selected filter set. Filter sets have the following properties: Filter Set Name, Filter Set Type, and Global Filters.

    Filter Set Name

Specifies the name used to identify the filter set in the Filter drop-down list in the configuration pane.

    Filter Set Type

Displays the filter set types: Exclusive and Inclusive.

        Exclusive

Excludes and does not instrument classes meeting the criteria of the selected filters. Profiling results for these classes do not appear in the collected results.

        Inclusive

Includes in the instrumentation only the classes meeting the criteria of the selected filters. Profiling results are collected only for these classes.

    Global Filters.

Displays global filters. Each global filter in the list represents groups of patterns that are typically related to one application. For example, org.netbeans is a pattern. A filter can contain more than one pattern. Patterns can be separated by a comma and/or space.

Select the global filters that you want to exclude or include. To modify or create global filters, click Edit Global Filters.



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