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mgroen's avatar
mgroen
Frequent Contributor
14 years ago

Best practices used for server counters



Hi,

I am currently evaluating LoadComplete 2 Beta 1.

Since today I have access to the additional server monitoring counters.

Since I am able to select counters out of a large amount of available of counters, my question is which are the most frequently used, for load and stress testing.



For example: Percentage Idle CPU time? or Memory pages?



I'm interested in what the more experienced load testers can tell me about this..







Mathijs



  • AlexeyK's avatar
    AlexeyK
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    14 years ago

    Mathijs,


    The most frequently used counters are already in the Runtime Graphs panel: Page Load Time, Time To First Byte, % CPU, Memory, etc. They help you estimate server performance.


    If you need a specific counter, the counter to be used depends on the task you are going to accomplish. The "Typical Use Cases" section of LoadComplete 2 help file contains some topics that describe counters which can be used in this or that situation:


    * Load Testing: Measuring Server Hardware Performance

    * Testing ASP.NET Applications - Specific Server Metrics

    * Knowing Request Processing Time

    * Measuring SQL Server Performance


    You can find the section in the tree of contents of the help file.