Chapter 26. Metrics: How to Measure and What to Report
If you decide to monitor or benchmark your applications, one of the crucial decisions you must make is which metrics to calculate and report. Some benchmarks are designed solely to test application functionality, in which case the metric may be related to success or failure of the test. If the benchmark is testing performance, useful metrics are more likely to be related to transaction throughput, response time, and resource utilization.
Similar decisions must be taken when the objective is to monitor and profile live application behavior. Unfortunately, many users do not monitor their business transactions. Nevertheless, before server systems can be sized in a meaningful way, it is essential ...
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