eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by IISWebSitesTest

The IISWebSitesTest reports statistics pertaining to all the web sites running on an IIS web server. Note that this teat will not execute on the IIS Web servers v8 and above. The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Availability Indicates whether the web site is currently available or not Percent The value 0 indicates that the website is not running, the value 100 indicates that it is up and running.
Data_recvd_rate The rate at which the data is received by the web server KBytes/Sec An increase in this value is indicative of an increase in user requests to the web server.
Data_xmit_rate The rate at which the data is transmitted by the web server KBytes/Sec A large increase in the data transmission rate can be indicative of an increase in the popularity of one or more web sites hosted on the server.
Connection_rate The rate of connections to the web server Conns/Sec An increase or decrease in connection rate can represent a change in user workload.
Num_current_requests The number of server threads/ processes that are currently in use for serving requests Number If a majority of the server threads/processes are in use simultaneously, this may be indicative of a server bottleneck.
Requests_serviced_rate The rate at which all HTTP Requests are issued Requests/Sec  
Current_anon_users The number of users who currently have an anonymous connection Number  
Current_non_anon_users The number of users who currently have non-anonymous connection Number  
Get_requests_rate The rate at which HTTP requests using the GET method are made Requests/Sec  
Post_requests_rate The rate at which HTTP requests using the POST method are made Requests/Sec  
Head_requests_rate The rate at which HTTP requests using the HEAD method are issued Requests/Sec  
Maximum_connections The maximum number of simultaneous connections established Number  
Not_found_requests_rate The rate of errors due to requests that could not be satisfied by the web server because the requested document could not found Requests/Sec A high value indicates a number of missing/errored pages.
Requests_serviced The number of HTTP requests serviced, currently Number