eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by SPOFileFieldsTest

SharePoint Online is widely used as a cloud-based service to which users can easily upload their files and share them with other users. Users with access to a file in a document library can download the file at any given point in time and work on it offline. Alternatively, they can checkout a file to make sure that no other user can edit it, make changes to that file online/offline, and check that file back into the library with or without their changes.

If any of these file operations fail or take longer than usual, it can cause critical changes to be lost. Consequently, user productivity will be badly affected and user confidence in SharePoint Online will be shaken. This is why, it is imperative that administrators spot failures/slowness in such operations well before users notice. This is exactly what the SPOFileFieldsTest test helps administrators achieve!

Periodically, this test emulates a file upload, download, checkin, checkout, and delete operation, and reports the status and time taken by each operation. In the process, the test proactively alerts administrators to the failure/slowness in a file operation, thereby enabling them to investigate and resolve the bottleneck before users complain.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the Office 365 tenant being monitored.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
File_checkin_status Indicates whether/not the test was able to checkin the file successfully.   The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Success 1
Failure 0

Note:

Typically, this test reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of a file checkin operation. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only.
File_checkin_time Indicates the time taken for the file checkin operation to complete. Seconds An unusually high value for this measure is indicative of a bottleneck when checking in.
File_checkout_status Indicates whether/not the test was able to checkout the file successfully.   The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Success 1
Failure 0

Note:

Typically, this test reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of a file checkout operation. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only.
File_checkout_time Indicates the time taken for the file checkout operation to complete. Seconds An unusually high value for this measure is indicative of a bottleneck when checking out.
File_download_status Indicates whether/not the test was able to download the file successfully. Number The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Success 1
Failure 0

Note:

Typically, this test reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of a file download operation. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only.
File_download_time Indicates the time taken for the file download operation to complete. Seconds An unusually high value for this measure is indicative of a bottleneck when downloading.
File_upload_status Indicates whether/not the test was able to upload the file successfully.   The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Success 1
Failure 0

Note:

Typically, this test reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of a file upload operation. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only.
File_upload_time Indicates the time taken for the file upload operation to complete. Seconds An unusually high value for this measure is indicative of a bottleneck when uploading a file.
File_deletion_status Indicates whether/not the test was able to delete the file successfully.   The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are listed in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Success 1
Failure 0

Note:

Typically, this test reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate the status of a file delete operation. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only.
File_deletion_time Indicates the time taken for the file delete operation to complete. Seconds An unusually high value for this measure is indicative of a bottleneck when deleting a file.