View external services

To monitor External Services, click External Services on left panel. You can view a graph of Average Execution Time for each of the external services related tag, top slow services and a load distribution of these slow services.

Performance Monitoring Toolset has a separate page to track the metrics of certain special tags/functions listed as follows:

1. CFHTTP
2. CFFTP
3. CFFEED
4. CFLDAP
5. CFMAIL
6. CFPOP
7. CFFILE
8. CFINVOKE
9. CFSHAREPOINT
10. CFOBJECT

Clicking on the External Services icon on the left panel redirects to an Overview page for the same. You can see a graph of ART for each of the external services, time taken and service distribution of various services here. Further clicking on any one of the above listed tag redirects to a page with specific and detailed information in the form of pie-charts pertaining to that tag (or equivalent function).

For example, in the image below, you can see the various details applicable to the ftp tag. Similarly all the other tags have pie-charts of information specific to that tag.

Each tag detail page consists of a line graph which shows the Average Execution Time for that tag over that period of time. Every tag detail page also captures the details of the Distribution of nodes and applications for the respective tags in the form of pie-charts.

Along with these pie-charts, certain important attributes and their details are captured for each of these tags in the form of pie-charts. The data captured for each of the tags are as follows:

CFHTTP

1. Method Distribution: A distribution of the various HTTP method calls(eg: GET,POST,PUT.. ).
2. Multipart Distribution: A distribution of the multipart type for each cfhttp request made as specified in the multipart attribute.
3. Status Code Distribution: A distribution of the HTTP status codes returned from each of the HTTP requests.
4. URL Distribution: A distribution of the Address of the resource on the server that handled the request.

CFFTP

1. Action Distribution: A distribution of various FTP actions that have been carried out with the connection/files/directories (eg: open,listdir,putfile..).
2. Directory Distribution: A distribution of the directories accessed on which the FTP operations were carried out.
3. Error Distribution: A success versus failure distribution chart of all the FTP requests made.
4. Server Distribution: A distribution of the various FTP servers accessed or connected to.

CFFEED

1. Action Distribution: A distribution of the FEED action carried out in the FEED requests(for example, read,query).
2. Source Distribution: A distribution of the files accessed to carry out the FEED action.

CFLDAP

1. Action Distribution: A distribution of various LDAP actions that were carried out as part the LDAP requests(for example, add,query,modify)
2. Server Distribution: A distribution of the various LDAP servers accessed or connected to.

CFMAIL

1. Attachment Distribution: A distribution of the attachment files used as part of the corresponding attribute for the mail requests.
2. Server Distribution: A distribution of the various mail servers accessed or connected to.

CFPOP

1. Action Distribution: A distribution of various actions performed on the e-mail messages from a POP mail server(for example, delete, getheaderonly, getall).
2. Attachment Distribution: A distribution of the attachment files used as part of the corresponding attribute for the POP requests.
3. Server Distribution: A distribution of the various POP mail servers accessed or connected to.

CFFILE

• Action Distribution: A distribution of the various file operations that were done using the file tag or function (for example, read,write,copy,upload).

CFINVOKE

1. Component Distribution: A distribution of the various components that were accessed/instantiated using the cfinvoke tag.
2. Method Distribution: A distribution of the various method or operations used as part of the cfinvoke tag.
3. WebService Distribution: A distribution of the WSDL files accessed for the webservice call using the cfinvoke tag.

CFSHAREPOINT

1. Action Distribution: A distribution of the various web service actions that were done (for example, createdws, addattachment, updatelist, query, registration, addrole)
2. Domain Distribution: A distribution of the various SharePoint servers used.
3. NTLM Domain Distribution: For authType=NTLM, it is a distribution of the servers where the user is registered.
4. Authentication type Distribution: A distribution of the authentication type used to carry out the sharepoint action.

CFOBJECT

1. Application distribution: A distribution of the applications that used the CFOBJECT tag and/or CreateObject function.
2. Component Distribution: A distribution of the various components that were accessed/instantiated using the cfobject tag.
3. Type distribution: A distribution of the number of times Java objects were called.