AWR or Automated Workload Repository report provides detailed information about the database to conduct the analysis of the performance of Oracle Database. This article will help you to get knowledge on important AWR report sections and how to read and conclude the DB performance. Once you generate the report by following the steps provided in … Read more
Before discussing the difference between agent-based and agent-less monitoring tools, let’s try to understand what is an agent. What is an agent? An agent is a proprietary software application installed on the server whose performance needs to be monitored. The agent resides at the server end and gathers the stats like CPU, Memory utilization etc. Then … Read more
Ohhhh… Again a lazy Monday! Not sure what does impact my performance each Monday morning? Lazy morning, office work, and surrounding weather all hit me simultaneously. Oops, what I am discussing here. I should talk about performance testing-related stuff instead of my boring Monday… Ok, so today I will share a good article which I … Read more
To understand the difference between Physical and Logical CPU (core), you need to run the command lscpu on your Linux machine and you will get a result like this: Now, we will focus only on some important attributes, the rest are not so much important with respect to this topic, so I will park them as of … Read more
The previous post explained the software architecture and its types. Since each tier has different roles and operations hence the performance matrices are also different. Below is a list of certain mandatory performance metrics for each of the tiers which should be monitored during the performance test. Client Tier Since there is a need for better application performance in … Read more
Linux server performance monitoring through the ‘ss’ command provides the monitoring statistics related to network sockets and connections. ‘ss’ stands for ‘Socket Statistics’ and it is a simpler and faster version of the obsolete command ‘netstat’. ‘ss’ utility completely replaces ‘netstat’ in the Linux Performance Monitoring system which provides more advanced features and flexibility. It has … Read more