Chapter 1. Identifying Problems

This chapter looks at some of the tools and techniques that you can use to identify the areas where any performance bottlenecks are in your SOA Suite application. It covers the following recipes:

• Identifying new size problems with jstat

• Identifying permanent generation problems with jstat

• Monitoring garbage collection with jstat

• Identifying locking issues with jstack

• Identifying performance problems with jstack

• Identifying performance problems using VisualVM on HotSpot

• Identifying performance problems with JRMC on JRockit

• Using JRockit flight recorder to identify problems

• Monitoring JDBC connections with the WebLogic console

• Identifying slow running database queries

• Identifying slow running components with the Enterprise Manager