- Web Load Testing Windows Monitoring

Web Load Testing Windows® monitoring

Real Time Windows Monitoring

• Windows monitors allow the user to monitor all the Windows machines and get specific counters from the Operating System.
• With NeoLoad you can supervise your entire server infrastructure as the test is running.
• NeoLoad uses PerfMon to get the standard Windows performance counters.

Windows Monitoring Counters

All these performance counters are available both while the web load test is running and in the results. On a typical Windows server, the main, basic counters are as follows:

• Memory\Pages/sec. Detects the Pages/sec swap rate. The pages/sec rate is the speed at which the pages are read from or written to the disk when resolving hardware page faults. A hardware page fault occurs when a process has to access code on a physical disk because it cannot be accessed in the memory.
• Memory\Available Megabytes. Indicates how much physical memory remains after the working sets of running processes and the cache have been served.
• Processor\Processor Time \%. CPU activity in percentage.
• System\Processor Queue Length. This counter displays the number of threads waiting to be executed in the queue that is shared by all processors on the system. If this counter (divided by the number of processors) has a sustained value of five or more threads, there is a processor bottleneck.
• Physical disk\Disk Time \%. Percentage of elapsed time spent by the selected physical disk drive executing read or write requests.
• Network Interface\Packets/s. Rate at which packets are sent and received on the network interface.