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[ericj]

Thank you for the excellent tool.  Allow me to describe my scenario; I would like to ask your opinion on what I should be monitoring.

The application is Pokemon card game deck builder:  www.deckminder.com

It is extremely graphics heavy.  The client queues its own requests and requests a couple of images every second or so using a timeout in Javascript.  The number of images downloaded by a client might be around 1500 images per session.  It is optimized for client-side caching.

But the first time someone visits the site, very heavy activity.  I know that ultimately I will have to start serving graphics from multiple servers, perhaps using the Amazon EC2 cloud or Microsoft Azure.

In any event, I want to monitor the site so that I can know when the user experience has degraded to an unacceptable level.  And once it has degraded to an unacceptable level, what the characteristics are:  (1) how many users, (2) how long a request is taking versus how long it should take, (3) and others as per your suggestion.

Can you make suggestions on what I should monitor with your Web Performance Monitor?

Thanks much, and many regards.

[Jon Tackabury]

You can try looking at the number of requests per second. If you are using IIS there should be counters for this. If you aren't, I'm not sure what you can do. If the web application (deckminder) is a .NET application there are additional .NET performance counters, but if it's in PHP I'm not sure what you can do to monitor specific application counters, sorry. I hope this information helps.