Net Connection Pool Monitoring

The following illustrates a custom dashboard created to simply monitor the database throughput rate and response time against the size of a connection pool.

Net connection pool monitoring.

On the first request to an endpoint when no existing connections exist a new http connection will be established and used for the request. Database connections are vital in large enterprise applications. The following table describes the perfmon counters that you can use to tune pooling for your application. The pooler maintains ownership of the physical connection.

To monitor connection pooling with performance monitor click start point to programs point to administrative tools and then click performance to start performance monitor. Improper usage of connections leads to performance issues. It manages connections by keeping alive a set of active connections for each given connection configuration. Ado net performance counters can be used to monitor the status the connection resources that the application uses.

Monitoring the database at real time is trivial but we are holding one session of the database and invites lot of security issues. To minimize the cost of opening connections ado net uses an optimization technique called connection pooling. Whenever a user calls open on a connection the pooler looks for an available connection in the pool. Tracking connection pool performance all datadirect connect for ado net data providers install a set of performance monitor perfmon counters that return information that lets you tune your applications for performance.

Number of active connections within appdynamics you can monitor and baseline in your production application the health of your ado net connection pool strategy. If a pooled connection is. In the performance object drop down list click sql server.