Find Out How

A monitor defines which resources to monitor of those offered by a given Monitor Server. You can think of a monitor as an instance of the statistics available for a given Monitor Server. A monitor can use all or a portion of the data offered by its Monitor Server.  SOASTA CloudTest uses the monitor to provide analytic charts for your tests.

During monitor creation or editing, look closely at the resources that you want to monitor for the Monitor Server against which your Monitor will run.

Once you monitor is configured, you can set monitoring properties in one or more test compositions that use that monitor. In SOASTA CloudTest, use Test Composition > Composition Properties.

Once Composition Properties are visible, choose the Monitoring tab.

The results of the Test Composition-related monitoring of server CPU use are shown below in the Analytics Dashboard.

You can view a more detailed series of charts for the specific monitor by choosing Repository > Monitors, selected your monitor in the list and then clicking View Analytics.

The Monitor Dashboard appears showing additional charts for the monitor. Keep in mind that the monitor analytics are expressly tied to one or more Test Compositions. If you don’t see your data charted, check that the test is linked to the monitor you opened and that the test has been played.

The I/O Kilobytes Read chart is shown.

The I/O Kilobytes Written chart is shown.

Create a Monitor

1. In the SOASTA Repository, select Monitors.

2. Click New on the toolbar.

3. The Add a New Monitor Server or Monitor wizard appears. Click Monitor and then click Next.

4. Enter a name for the new monitor, a brief description, and check the box for the Monitor Server upon which to base this monitor and then click Next.

5. Select the service types, sample rates, and enter any arguments necessary for your selections. These options will vary depending on the Monitor Serverthat was selected in the prior step.

6. Review the Summary information. Click Back to make changes to your earlier selections and click Finish to create the monitor.

Once your monitor is created, you can link one or more Test Compositions to it using Test Composition Properties.