Monitoring WPS/WESB applications

There is also a need to understand, from a runtime perspective, what is happening within the deployed solution. Some of the common visibility items include:

• Overall System/Server Health—CPU usage, memory usage, IO usage, connection pool, thread pool, event logs, disk space, and so on

• Module Health—Status of modules, failed events, status of process instances, and so on

• Services Health and Performance—Response time, throughput, periodic statistics, failure rates, and so on

• Diagnostic Information—Logs, trace, threads, and so on

• Business Process/Activity Performance—One of the goals of modelling a business process (like what we did in Chapter 7, Sales Fulfillment Application for JungleSea Inc.) is to measure the efficiency and the performance of the process itself based on KPIs and other instance metrics

From an overall system monitoring perspective, you need to make sense out of the raw data you are looking at. You need meaningful information and capabilities that...