Performance Testing Counters for Load Runner | Counters for Load runner Analysis

Client-Side Counters

• Response Time: Measures the time from when a user enters a request until the first character of the response is received.
• Throughput: Represents the rate at which a computer or network receives requests per second.
• Amount of Connection Pooling: Indicates the number of user requests that are met by pooled connections.
• Maximum Active Sessions: Reflects the maximum number of sessions that can be active at once.
• Hits per Second: Represents the number of hits on a web server during each second of a load test.
• Hit Ratios: Measure the efficiency of caching mechanisms.

Server-Side Counters

• Processor Usage: Measures the amount of time the processor spends executing non-idle threads.
• Memory Use: Indicates the amount of physical memory available to processes on a computer.
• Disk Time: Measures the amount of time the disk is busy executing read or write requests.
• Network Output Queue Length: Indicates the length of the output packet queue in packets.
• Rollback Segment: Tracks the amount of data that can rollback at any point in time.
• Database Locks: Monitors the locking of tables and databases.
• Top Waits: Monitored to determine which wait times can be reduced when retrieving data from memory.
• Thread Counts: Measures the number of threads that are running and currently active.
• Garbage Collection: Tracks the efficiency of returning unused memory back to the system.