Monitoring Web Services

Admin Console can track operational statistics for web services, and can display messages sent and received by web services.

To enable monitoring for a web service, with Admin Console, select Web Services > web-service-name | Monitor | Configuration.

In the Monitoring Configuration page, set the monitoring level:

• LOW: Monitors response time, throughput, total number of requests, faults, average response time, and response time for last request to the web service.

• HIGH: In addition to the metrics monitored at LOW level, also monitors SOAP request and response messages.

• OFF: Disables monitoring.

Enter a value for the Message History. The default is 25. Click the Reset button to clear all statistics and the running averages are restarted.

You can also configure web service monitoring with the configure-webservice-management(1) command.

Viewing Web Service Statistics

Application Server9 provides capabilities to track the operational statistics of a web service.

View monitoring statistics at Web Services > web-service-name | Monitor | Statistics. The statistics available are:

• Response time in milliseconds on any successful or unsuccessful operation (maximum, minimum, and average).

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  Response time is the time the sever took to process the web service request, not including any network transmission time.

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• Throughput.

• Total number of requests.

• Total number of faults.

Viewing Web Service Messages

You can also configure a web service to view messages for a web service endpoint. Monitor web service messages at Web Services > web-service-name | Monitor | Messages.

By default, Admin Console retains the last 25 messages. Admin Console displays details of SOAP requests, responses, and HTTP header information. In addition, the following information is displayed for a web service request:

• Remote user name

• Client host information

• Timestamp

• Response information (success or failure)

• Size of the request

You can also select a filter to view only the success messages or the failure messages. If call flow monitoring is enabled, each message is linked to call flow information that enables you to look at the call stack information for each message.