Video Series: Monitoring Part 1 – Why monitor?
Here’s the first video in our Monitoring Series, aptly named “Why Monitor?”
Here’s the first video in our Monitoring Series, aptly named “Why Monitor?”
Okay, so it’s not a number or a statistic, but it is certainly the most critical question. Along with this, who do the users call first? Is it you or somebody else? Know who’s going to get the call, and be sure they can always answer that question!
Believe it or not, we use a whole bunch of tools in addition to ProTop when analyzing performance issues. This video series will highlight a few of them, starting with the original and always timeless promon.
3 weeks ago we received a call from a company having performance issues following a double update: Progress OpenEdge 11.6 to 11.7.9, Windows 2016 to Windows 2019. Ok… this is quite straightforward, what’s the problem? Everything is slower since the update. A report takes 5 to 6 minutes instead of 2.
Data protection is comprised of two equally important components: backups and after-image archives. Almost everyone understands backups: if there’s a problem, they get you 95% of your data back, up until the time of the last backup. After-image archives get you down that last mile, containing the detailed changes that were applied to your database. Think of them as a recording that you can play back (we call this “rolling forward”) on top of your restored DB. All the recorded changes are applied to the restored database in the same way as they were done the first time around.
There are a lot of metrics that “everyone knows” you should be paying attention to. But much like “common sense”, it sure would be nice if more people knew about these metrics and why you should pay attention to them!