Planning for System Monitoring

Planning Unwired Platform performance monitoring requires performance objectives, benchmarks based on those objectives, and plans for scaling your production environment. Do this before you create your monitoring profile.

1. Understand the business requirements your system is addressing.
2. Translate those business needs into performance objectives. As business needs evolve, performance objectives must also evolve.
3. Perform capacity planning and evaluate performance of the monitoring database.
   If statistics indicate that Unwired Platform is approaching your capacity guidelines, you may want to collect this data more frequently and flush stale data. You can also use the Administration Client API to automate tasks such as exporting and purging of monitoring data.
4. Define and document a base set of statistics, which might include:
   • Peak synchronizations per hour
   • Peak synchronizations per day
   • Acceptable average response time
5. Decide how often system statistics must be monitored to create benchmarks and evaluate results for trends. Use benchmarks and trends to determine when your production environment needs to be expanded. Trend analysis should be performed on a regular basis, perhaps monthly.