AppFabricCache - Host Test

This test monitors the Microsoft AppFabric Caching and reports host-level performance metrics. The request serving ability and the size of the data of the primary cache server or the host cache is monitored and reported. Using this test, administrators are alerted to poor responsiveness (if any ) of the primary cache so that corrective measures can be quickly initiated.

Target of the test : A Microsoft AppFabric Caching

Agent deploying the test : An internal/remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the target Microsoft AppFabric Caching server being monitored

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter	Description
Test Period	How often should the test be executed.
Host	The IP address of the host for which this test is to be configured.
Port	Specify the port at which the specified Host listens. By default, this is NULL.

Measurements made by the test
Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Avg quorum response time	Indicates the amount of time spent by write operations in replication.	Secs
Avg secondary response time	Indicates the average time spent to get response from all the secondary servers.	Secs	A low value is desired for this measure.
Percentage of cache miss	Indicates the percentage of unsuccessful cache requests to the total number of requests since the start of the cache service.	Percent
Cache misses	Indicates the total number of unsuccessful cache requests since the start of the cache service.	Number	Ideally, the value of this measure should be zero. A sudden/gradual increase in the value of this measure indicates that the requests are not serviced from the cache.
Cache misses per sec	Indicates the total number of unsuccessful cache requests per second since start of cache service.	Number
Data size	Indicates the total size of cached data in the cache, not including cache overhead.	MB
Evicted objects	Indicates the number of evicted objects since the start of the cache service.	Number
Eviction runs	Indicates the number of eviction runs since the start of the cache service.	Number
Expired objects	Indicates the number of expired objects since the start of the cache service.	Number
Memory evicted	Indicates the amount of memory freed from cache since the start of the cache service.	Number
Primary data size	Indicates the total size of primary cached data in the cache, not including cache overhead.	MB
Secondary data size	Indicates the total size of secondary cached data in the cache, not including cache overhead.	MB
Failure exceptions	Indicates the number of exceptions that are being thrown by the server since start of cache service.	Number
Failure exceptions per sec	Indicates the number of exceptions per second that are being thrown by the server since start of cache service.	Number
Retry exception	Indicates the total number of retry operation exceptions since the start of the cache service.	Number
Retry exception per sec	Indicates the total number of retry operation exceptions per second since the start of the cache service.	Number
Client requests	Indicates the total number of client requests, including all API calls.	Number
Client requests per sec	Indicates the total number of client requests per second, including all API calls.	Number
Get misses	Indicates the number of Get misses from all clients since the start of the cache service.	Number
Get misses per sec	Indicates the number of Get misses per second from all clients since the start of the cache service.	Number
Get requests	Indicates the number of Get requests received from all clients since the service was started.	Number
Get requests sec	Indicates the number of Get requests received per second from all clients since the service was started.	Number
Get and lock requests	Indicates the total number of GetAndLock requests since the start of the cache service.	Number
Get and lock requests per sec	Indicates the total number of GetAndLock requests received per second since the start of the cache service.	Number
Successful get and lock requests	Indicates the number of GetandLock requests that were successful since the start of the cache service.	Number	A High value is desired for this measure.
Successful get and lock requests per sec	Indicates the number of GetandLock requests that were received successfully per second since the start of the cache service.	Number
Read requests	Indicates the number of read requests (Bulk Get, Get and Enumeration) received from all clients since the start of the cache service.	Number
Read requests per sec	Indicates the number of read requests (Bulk Get, Get and Enumeration) received per second from all clients since the start of the cache service.	Number
Write operations	Indicates the number of write requests since the start of the cache service.	Number
Write operations per sec	Indicates the number of write requests per second since the start of the cache service.	Number
Requests served	Indicates the number of request served and responses sent by the server since the start of the cache service.	Number	A high value is desired for this measure.
Requests served per sec	Indicates the number of request served and responses sent by the server per second since the start of the cache service.	Number
Object count	Indicates the total number of objects stored in the host.	Number
Objects returned	Indicates the number of objects returned by client read requests.	Number
Objects returned per sec	Indicates the number of objects returned by client read requests per second.	Number
Notification delivered	Indicates the number of notifications delivered to clients.	Number
Notification delivered per sec	Indicates the number of notifications delivered per second to clients.	Number
Notification poll requests	Indicates the total number of poll request from client since the start of the cache service.	Number
Notification poll requests per sec	Indicates the total number of poll request per second from client since the start of the cache service.	Number