eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by DialogActivityTest

The Dialog service is the one which responds to the user requests to an R/3 server. This test reports performance statistics pertaining to the Dialog service of the R/3 server.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Utilization The percentage utilization of the dialog work processes of an application server Percent  
Dialog_work_procs The number of dialog work processes Number  
Queue_length The percentage utilization of the dispatcher wait queue Percent With normal workload, this value is around 0%. A long wait queue is a sign that the application server has too few work processes or too high a CPU workload.
Long_runners Indicates how long the long-running dialog processes have been running Secs Long-running tasks can block other users' dialog steps and can produce a general degradation of dialog response time for interactive users. Resolving this problem requires analysis of long-running dialog steps. Corrective measures include moving users to another application server, asking users to schedule long-running reports or other actions as background jobs in off-peak time periods, etc.
Dialog_steps The number of dialog steps per minute Steps/min A high value combined with a high Dialog process time points to a general overload; a very low value, indicates an error.
Users_logged_in The number of users logged in Number