Run-Time Events and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Metrics
CentraSite can receive run-time events and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) metrics from gateways such as webMethods Mediator. A run-time event is an event that occurs while services are actively deployed on a gateway. Examples of run-time events are:
Successful or unsuccessful SOAP and REST requests.
Policy violation events that are generated upon violation of service’s run-time policy.
Service monitoring events that are generated by the service-monitoring actions in the run-time policy.
KPI metrics are used to monitor the run-time execution of virtual services. Metrics include the maximum response time, average response time, fault count, availability of virtual services, and so on. If you include run-time monitoring actions in your run-time policies, the actions monitors the KPI metrics for virtual services and send alerts to various destinations when user-specified performance conditions for a service are violated.
CentraSite provides predefined event types that can be used with any supported policy-enforcement point (PEP), such as webMethods Mediator. In addition, you can also create custom event types.
The run-time event data are collected by the PEP and published to CentraSite through SNMP. The PEP publishes data for all run-time events for all instances of the PEP gateway.
You can view the run-time events and metrics for all targets, for a particular target, or for a particular virtual service using both CentraSite Business UI and CentraSite Control.
