database-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.

Utilization %

  • Percentage of time that the database is busy.
  • High utilization will affect uptime.

Number Current Connections

  • How many active connections to the database?
  • Too many can result in degraded performance.

Concurrency

  • How many jobs are being processed at the same time?
  • More jobs equates to more load, and is a precursor to performance issues.

Execution Time ms

  • How long are jobs in the database?
  • Indication of database processing issues

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