Monitor application flow
Overview
This information includes understanding the application flow that satisfies the end user request. This perspective provides the views of specific servlets that access specific session beans, entity container-managed persistence beans, and a specific database. This perspective is important for the in-depth internal understanding of who is using specific resources. Typically at this stage, you deploy some type of trace through the application, or thread analysis under load condition techniques to isolate areas of the application and particular interactions with the back-end systems that are especially slow under load. In this case, WAS provides request metrics to help trace each individual transaction as it flows through Application Server, recording the response time at different stages of the transaction flow (for example, request metrics records the response times for the Web server, the Web container, the Enterprise JavaBeans container, and the back-end database). In addition, several IBM development and monitoring tools that are based on the request metrics technology (for example, Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance) are available to help view the transaction flow.
See also
Why use request metrics?
Example: Using request metrics
Understanding the data that one can collect with request metrics
Getting performance data from request metrics
Extending request metrics
Understanding the differences between PMI and request metrics
Related Tasks
Monitoring overall system health
Monitoring end user response time