eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by WsJdbcTest

The WsJdbcTest measures the statistics pertaining to the database connection pools that exist in the WebSphere application server. The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Creation_rate Indicates the rate at which the connections are created in the pool. Conns/Sec A sudden increase in the value of this measure directly relates to an increase in the database activity happening in this application.
Destroy_rate Indicates the rate at which the connections are released from the pool. Conns/Sec A decrease in the value of this measure points to an unusual performance of the application. The application might not be releasing the connections.
Return_rate This measure indicates the rate at which the connections are being returned to the pool. Conns/Sec A low value of this measure might be due to some applications that are not releasing the connections to the pool.
Allocate_rate Indicates the rate at which the connections are allocated from the pool. Conns/Sec A high value for this measure indicates more activity happening on the server. An unusually high value for this measure might result in the pool running out of connections, if the Return_rate is not concurrent.
Pool_size Indicates the number of connections in the pool. It indicates the active pool size. Number A growing pool size may be due to some of the applications not releasing connections to the pool.
Concurrent_waiters Indicates the average number of threads waiting for a connection. Number A high value indicates a bottleneck on the application server. This may be caused due to unreleased connections.
Avg_wait_time Indicates the average time that a client waited to be granted a connection. Secs An increase in this measure reflects a server bottleneck.
Fault_rate Indicates the rate at which connection pool timeouts occur. Faults/Sec A high value is indicative of a bottleneck on the server.
Pct_used Indicates the average percentage of connections of the pool in use. Percent This measure should not reach the maximum of 100 for optimal performance of the application server. To reduce this value, try increasing the pool size.
Pct_maxed Average percentage of the time that all connections are in use. Percent A high value indicates that the pool size needs to be increased for effective operation of this application.
Pstmt_cache_discard_rate Indicates the rate at which the prepared statements are discarded from the cache. Stmts/Sec A high rate indicates a bottleneck in the application. It is a sign of inefficient performance of the application.