application-metrics

Uptime %

  • Used to measure uptime / availability.
  • Issues with this metric equate to reduced revenue generation.

Response Time ms

  • Measurement of how long it takes the application or infrastructure to respond.
  • Poor response time indicates communication or processing issues along the application path.

Error Rate %

  • Percentage of errors generated per minute.
  • Higher error rates indicate problems with the application or the hosted infrastructure.

Requests per Second

  • Indication of incoming load to the environment; precursor to other load indicators.
  • Higher numbers mean that the environment will start to experience heavy load.

Fast, Slow, Very Slow, Stalled, Failed Requests

  • Indicates how Application Transactions are performing.
  • Poor numbers indicate an issue with a transaction or the hardware supporting the application.

Threads

  • Measurement of the amount of processes that an application is using to process work.
  • High thread counts indicate an unhealthy condition in the application.

Count of Application Instances (Extensible architectures)

  • Measurement of node churn to identify processing issues or load.
  • Higher numbers indicate issues with expansion, the trigger, or increased environmental load.

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