Monitoring Web-Based Applications and Infrastructure

As companies begin to build more and more web applications, it's up to system administrators and managers to gain top performance from both the apps and the datacenter infrastructure that supports them. With this book, you'll examine several aspects of monitoring to learn where potential bottlenecks can occur in single servers, large scale infrastructures, and cloud computing environments. You'll learn how to provide an effective system to monitor your existing infrastructure, including servers, storage sub-systems, and network environments. To fully understand how web applications perform, you'll also learn several methods for monitoring the transaction times of databases, application servers, and web servers. Use network sniffers to trace the response times of incoming and outgoing http requests Install customized java code to monitor application servers Monitor database SQL queries Integrate centralized logging of web servers