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Foglight for Infrastructure 7.3.0 - Foglight for Web Monitor User and Reference Guide

Monitoring Web transactions Exploring your collection of monitored Web sites Investigating the performance of Web transactions and monitoring locations Exploring Web Monitor services Generating reports Configuring Web Monitor agent properties View reference
Web Monitor Performance Browser views Web Monitor Transaction Management views Web Monitor Service Operation Console and Foglight for APM Transactions views

Drilling down on locations via the Locations tab

When you select a location in the Locations Tab Quick View, you can see details indicating the overall state of the transactions monitored from that location, the associated response metrics, and any alarms generated against it. To display additional details about that location, click Explore.

Figure 10. Location Additional Details

The Location drilldown view provides additional details about the selected location such as its response time and data collection metrics, and indicates its overall health during the monitored time range. For complete information about the data appearing on this view, see Location drilldown view.

Exploring Web Monitor services

The service mechanism in Foglight allows you to organize your monitoring components into logical groups. A primary use case for this is for a multi-tier application where objects are organized into service tiers and visualized in the Service Operations Console.

Foglight Web Monitor extends the Service Operations Console. When a Web Monitor service is defined and you also have Foglight for APM installed, you can visualize the Web Monitor transactions visualized in the Service Operations Console and on the Transactions dashboard, available with Foglight for APM. For more information about the Service Operations Console, see the Foglight User Guide. For details about Foglight for APM, see the Foglight Monitoring Application Performance User and Reference Guide.

Start by navigating to the Service Operations Console dashboard and select a Web Monitor service. The Web Monitor tiles appear on the Transactions tab. The information displayed on these tiles helps you visualize how your Web transactions are performing, and to predict potential bottlenecks.

Figure 11. Service Operations Console

Another way to navigate to these tiles is using the Transactions dashboard included with Foglight for APM. When you select a Web Monitor service on this dashboard, the Web Monitor tiles are displayed.

Figure 12. Web Monitor Tiles

From there, you drill down on the individual Web transaction tiles to obtain more information about their performance.

Figure 13. Individual Web Transaction Tile

Explore the charts displaying the response tile metrics for the selected Web site. This can give you a better idea of how the selected Web site is performing, providing indicators about potential performance problems, if they exist. For example, high response times often suggests higher loads that may require further investigation.

For more information about these views, see Web Monitor Service Operation Console and Foglight for APM Transactions views.

To explore Web transaction tiles:

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Complete one of the following steps:
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On the navigation panel, click Services > Service Operations Console.
On the Service Operations Console that appears in the display area, select a Web Monitor service, and ensure that the Transaction tab is open.
or
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On the navigation panel, click APM > Transactions.
On the Transactions dashboard that appears in the display area, select a Web Monitor service.
One or more transaction tiles appear in the display area.
Figure 14. Transaction Tiles
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Drill down on a transaction. Click the title bar of the transaction tile.
A dialog box appears, showing additional information about the selected transaction.
Figure 15. Selected Transaction Additional Information

Generating reports

Foglight provides a report generation ability. This allows you to create reports using predefined templates to report on the various aspects of your Web monitoring environment. Foglight Web Monitor includes a set of predefined report templates that can help you share data about your monitored environment with others in your organization. Web Monitor reports are accessible from the Reports menu.

For complete information about Foglight reports, see the Foglight User Guide.

 
Table 1. Predefined Reports
Report
Purpose
All Transactions Summary

Use this report to understand the overall state of your monitored Web sites and to obtain a general understanding of the responsiveness of your Web sites, and to identify any potential problems that might require further investigation.

All Transactions Daily Outage

Use this report to review the health of the monitored Web sites, and to investigate any reported outages.

Single Transaction

Use this report to see how well a transaction is performing. Comparing the performance metrics collected from different locations can give you a general view of the responsiveness of your Web sites, and to indicate potential problems at locations that show response issues, and as such might require further investigation.

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