Foglight for Infrastructure 5.9.6 - Infrastructure Utilities User Guide

Exploring the FAQts tab

The FAQts tab available on the Performance Browser allows you to review frequently asked questions about your monitored systems and their answers. The Categories view shows several question categories. Selecting a category shows the questions belonging to that category in the Questions pane. From there, clicking a question shows the answer on the right.

For complete information about the data appearing on this tab, see FAQts tab.

Drilling down on transactions

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

The All Locations drilldown view, displayed by default, allows you to review a larger set of metrics about the selected transaction, and to see how well that transaction is performing when monitored from different locations. 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. For complete information about the data appearing on this view, see Transaction at All Locations drilldown view.

From here, you can drill down on a particular location and review its overall performance. To do that, click the down-facing arrow on the right of Choose a Location, and select a location from the list that appears.

The Location drill down view shows the details of a transaction monitored from a particular location.

The top part of this view show a number of metrics resulted from monitoring that transaction from the selected location. The bottom part of this view shows a graph indicating the total transaction response times over the selected time range. High peaks in the graph often suggest potential bottlenecks and likely need to be investigated. For complete information about the data appearing on this view, see Transaction at a Selected Location drilldown view.

In some scenarios you can choose to monitor a Web transaction form multiple locations in your monitored environment. Drilling down on a specific location that shows the signs of performance degradation can either indicate a problem with the monitored location of the monitored Web transaction. Comparing the performance metrics collected from multiple locations can, for example, indicate potential problems with a particular location, rather than with the monitored transaction.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.