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You should examine four basic parts of the MySQL database system when monitoring performance:
Processor
Check to see how much of it is utilized and what peaks are reached by utilization.
Memory
Chec...
Keeping track of how well your site is doing is just the beginning. Knowing which key performance indicators (KPIs) to track for your website can be the real issue. The following excerpt from Allistai...
Monitoring your web application will let you see how the system performs over time and helps you optimize the bottlenecks. This excerpt from Building Scalable Web Sites, by Cal Henderson, provides an ...
Sometimes you just have to ask your customers what they like and what they want. This excerpt from Complete Web Monitoring, by Alistair Croll and Sean Power, explores how to connect directly with the ...
Speed is critical. If your application does not load within
milliseconds, it will tend to drive away users. Given the viral nature
of Facebook, such a scenario can occur within ...
If you want to monitor a running system in real time, and view things
like physical memory and CPU information, or identify drives, read the /proc virtual
filesystem. Use only cat to...
If you want to add a little more detail to your access log
entries, use the combined log format,
rather than the common log
format:CustomLog logs/access_log combined
...