Showing posts with label: Monitoring

This is a two part article – also read Combining Analytics with Performance Management Data.
I use Google Analytics every day to look at Key Web Performance Metrics to answer questions like:

How many people visit our blog?
I look at the Visitor Overview which shows me how many Visitors and Unique Visitors we have
Did they find us [...]

An Oracle database provides several v$ views to query information about the database instance, including statistical information that can be used for monitoring and problem analysis purposes. Rene Nyffenegger wrote a nice Summary on Oracle’s v$ views that gives an overview of all available views.
The following illustration shows [...]

I am hosting a Webinar with IntraLinks this Wednesday. The following overview of the webinar is taken from the guest blog I wrote for the IntraLinks blog as posted on July 13th 2010:
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The Cloud has become the hot topic in the past year, with many major technology leaders (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, SalesForce.com, etc.) [...]

Our dynaTrace Community Portal is our gateway to our users. Especially with the rapidly-growing number of world-wide users of our FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition, it is necessary to keep track on how well our pages perform from around the globe to satisfy our “performance hungry” community
There are two important questions we want to [...]

Searching for memory leaks can easily become an adventure – fighting through a jungle of objects and references. When the leak occurs in production time is short and you have to act fast. Like in a treasure hunt, we have to interpret signs, unravel mysteries to finally find the “lost” memory.
Memory leaks – together with [...]

In this post I will address top ten reports and their usefulness in performance engineering. Regularly I hear people saying: “Can you show me the top ten database statements” or something similar. Their approach to performance engineering is to look at the slowest or most time-consuming statements and then make them faster. While this is [...]

In this third article of my Performance Almanac I discuss the role of overhead in performance management. As a performance management solution provider we’re frequently asked “How much overhead does your solution have?” This question is however a bit more complex to answer than just giving a single number.
When discussing this topic I [...]

The extensible plugin architecture of dynaTrace opens many doors for our user community. dynaTrace users download additional monitor, task and action plugins on the dynaTrace Community Portal to extend the functionality of the dynaTrace APM Platform.
The latest addition is a plugin provided by MCG Systems out of Denmark. MCG created a plugin to monitor the Apache [...]

Inspired by a comment of Wim Leers on one of our other posts on web performance, I decided to switch plans and write this week about end-user experience monitoring. If you google end-user experience monitoring you will find a number of different approaches.
End- user experience – as I think we all agree – is the [...]