How do I configure performance monitor?

Note: This discussion does not apply when deploying ColdFusion on a J2EE server.

Performance Monitor overview

If you install ColdFusion in Windows, you can use the Windows Performance Monitor utility to track the performance of your server. This utility installs automatically as part of the ColdFusion installation, and works with a set of counters to monitor server performance.The following are the available ColdFusion counters: that you can enable in the Windows Performance Monitor:

  • Average database transaction time

  • Average queue time

  • Average request time

  • Bytes incoming per second

  • Bytes outgoing per second

  • Database hits per second

  • Page hits per second

  • Cache pops per second

  • Number of queued requests

  • Number of running requests

  • Number of timed out requests

To use performance monitoring,

  1. Select the Enable Performance Monitoring option on the Debug Output Settings page. For quick details, see Enable performance monitoring.

  2. Configure the Performance Monitor. For details, see Configure the Performance Monitor.

Enable performance monitoring

If you install ColdFusion in Windows, you can use the Debugging Output Settings page to enable performance monitoring through the Windows Performance Monitor utility.To enable performance monitoring,

  1. In the Debug Output Settings page, select the Enable Performance Monitoring option.

  2. Click Submit Changes.

  3. Restart ColdFusion for your changes to take effect.

After you enable performance monitoring, you can configure the Performance Monitor.

Configuration

After you enable performance monitoring, you can configure the Performance Monitor.

  1. Open the Performance Monitor window by selecting Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Performance.

  2. Click the Add (+) button. The Add Counters window appears.

  3. In the Performance Object drop-down list box, select ColdFusion Server. In the Counter list, select the counters that you want to use. To select multiple counters, hold down the Control key as you click.

  4. Click Add. The Performance Monitor begins to run. The display attributes apply to all counters.

  5. Click Close.