Performance monitoring dashboard - fping and URL ping
Posted by: Troy Tate
ping, url ping, network performance, application performance, network management, application management, network design, network diagnosis, icmp, web services, webserver, performance analysis
In part one of this series, I discussed ping and pathping. These tools are good for some interactive realtime testing. However, what do you do when you want to run these types of tools over an extended period and then do statistical analysis? In cases like this I use the fping tool. I recently completed an analysis task requiring comparison of network ping times against web server response times. The tool I used for measuring webserver response (time to first byte) is called URL ping. Users were reporting slow webserver (Sharepoint) performance. Everyone was saying it is a network issue. Since there are so many “moving” parts between the users and the webserver farm, I wanted to prove to them that the network was not the issue but that something inherent in the way the webserver responds to the requests is the real issue.
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