Our customers are running the best sites on the web. To help you successfully run these high performance, highly available, and highly secure applications, we’re excited to announce the beta availability of Application Insights & Metrics.
Application Insights & Metrics will give you the tools you need to accurately assess the performance and stability of your sites.
This is a brand new level of access and insight into applications running on the WordPress VIP Platform. Understanding performance, response, usage, and utilization metrics will give you valuable opportunities to address issues before they escalate into problems for your team. This release is marked as a beta as we intend to add more functionality here over the coming months, and we want to hear your feedback.
For example, visibility into your application’s object cache hit rate can help you optimize caching strategies, stats around database query types can help you identify inefficient code, sudden change in trends after code deployments can help you detect issues quickly.
This feature provides a host of valuable metrics. HTTP Requests are represented by response code and origin response time. Object cache and database information includes counts of different commands and slow query counts. Also available is the total size of the DB, active PHP worker count, and the page cache hit rate. Relevant events, e.g. deployments of application code, as well as Node, PHP, and WordPress versions updates, can be overlaid on the metrics.
Working with metrics, you can choose a time window from “last 30 minutes”, which is useful to see detail around a recent deployment, to “last 14 days”, for broader trends. Each time series metric is available as a chart or a table.
The legend at the bottom of the chart allows you to toggle time series and event markers. Hovering on an event marker shows key information for the event, and may provide a link to more detail, e.g. the logs for a particular deployment.
When viewing origin response time and slow query count in longer time windows you will see the “VIP-wide baseline”. The baseline enables you to compare your application performance against all other applications on the WordPress VIP platform.
To get started, log in to your account on the VIP Dashboard and select “Performance” then “Insights & Metrics” for any application. We look forward to seeing how you use this feature and welcome your feedback.
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