Understanding Events

Events are notifications containing performance metrics that are different from PMUs in that they are not hierarchical and they do not have durations. Events relate to resource usage, such as CPU usage or memory allocation. PeopleTools has defined a set of event types, and each type of event is reported at a specific location in the instrumented code.

Each event has:

• Type.

• Instance identifier (a unique identifier for a specific event instance).

• Timestamp.

• Severity.

• Metrics (such as CPU usage and memory allocation).

See Event Definitions.