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SolarWinds Synthetic End User Monitor (SeUM) Player

I have this monitor setup and both of my Players have this crtitical counter. SEUM Agent dropped queue items. 1 is at 8 and the other at 6. Is this something that I should be concerned about. It looks like everything is working fine on out Transaction monitors.

thanks

Tony

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This Performance Counter returns how many requests were dropped because they were already in the queue. The agent has an internal queue that it uses for transaction playback requests that cannot be immediately executed because there are no free worker processes. If a transaction is in the queue and a new playback request for the same transaction arrives, it is dropped because the queue cannot contain duplicate requests.

If the number of dropped requests increases significantly, it usually means that the Player is not able to play transactions as fast as they are requested. You should remove some transactions from the Player.

Given the highest number you have is "8", I wouldn't be too concerned. If this number was steadily increasing over time, then it's likely you have more transactions assigned to the player than it can handle.