Monitor application flow with request metrics
Rather than using 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, we can use request metrics to help trace each individual transaction as it flows through the 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.
Subtopics
- Data we can collect with request metrics
- Differences between Performance Monitoring Infrastructure and request metrics
- Why use request metrics?
- Getting performance data from request metrics
- Request metric extension
Monitor overall system health Monitor end user response time