Monitoring Scenarios

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Applies To: System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

After you install the Management Pack for Java APM, applications that run on a supported platform run additional discovery. Discovery creates an APM-enabled application for each application. The management pack uses a discovery interval of four hours. After discovery, Health Explorer displays an additional set of monitors that Java Application Performance Monitoring Application Base provides.

Monitoring scenario Description Associated rules and monitors

Application Response Time Issue

This scenario helps determine whether an application presents an overall performance issue. By monitoring average application response time and setting an appropriate threshold, you can determine when application response times deviate.

Average Response Time

  • Disabled by default

  • The monitor raises a critical alert for a broken threshold.

Application Performance Event Rate

On the agent side, you can configure a threshold for event creation. When this performance threshold is broken, the monitor generates a performance event that contains code-level insight into where the problem occurs. You can use this monitor to set a threshold for the rate at which to create an alert.

Performance Events Per Second

  • Disabled by default

  • The monitor raises a critical alert for a broken threshold.

Application Exception Event Rate

When an exception occurs within an entry point, the management pack creates an exception event with a stack trace, and potentially line numbers for a debug build of code. You can set a threshold for the rate at which the monitor creates exception events.

Exception Events Per Second

  • Disabled by default

  • The monitor raises a critical alert for a broken threshold.

Requests per Second Above Threshold Rate

If an application has a known capacity limit, set this threshold to help determine whether the application runs above that set capacity.

Requests Per Second Upper Limit

  • Disabled by default

  • The monitor raises a critical alert for a broken threshold.

Requests per Second Below Threshold Rate

If an application has a known lower baseline for requests per second, set this threshold to provide insight as to whether a failure occurs somewhere else in the stack that causes your load to drop. For Example, if a particular application always has some load, set this monitor to create an alert when the requests per second load drops below the expected load.

Requests Per Second Lower Limit

  • Disabled by default

  • The monitor raises a critical alert for a broken threshold.