Performance Data: KPIs

Performance subtabs list key performance indicators (KPIs). KPIs are monitoring metrics that use counters, activities, and time measurements, that show the health of the system. KPIs can use current data or historical data.

Metrics help administrators ascertain how close an application is to corporate performance goals. In addition, they also help you identify problem areas and bottlenecks within your application or system. Performance goal categories might include:

System metrics related to Unwired Platform components, EIS servers, networks, and throughput of all of these elements.
Application metrics, including counters.
Service-level metrics, which are related to your application, such as orders per second and searches per second.

When reviewing monitoring data, administrators typically start by evaluating high-level data and may then choose to drill down into object specifics. The approach used typically depends on the goal: benchmark, diagnose, or assess system health.

KPI type	Description	Used to
Counters	Counters keep a grand total of the number of times something happens, until historical data is purged.	Monitor the system workload. Performance objectives derived from the workload are often tied to a business requirement such as a travel purchasing application that must support 100 concurrent browsing users, but only 10 concurrent purchasing users.
Time	Benchmark or assess the duration of an object or activity.	Assess the response times and latency of an object to assess service levels.
Object details	Provide summary or expanded details by object name (for example, a mobile business object, a domain, or a package). This information increases the layer of detail to counters and time values, to give context to trends suggested by the first two types of KPIs.	Analyze overall system health and troubleshoot system-wide issues.