Name Service: Operations Average Latency

This statistic shows average latency per second for name service operations.

When to Check Name Service Operations Average Latency

Monitor name service operations average latency when SMB is experiencing performance issues, to determine whether the root cause of that performance problem is actually name service lookup latency.

Name service analytics should be used primarily to analyze performance and diagnose name service problems during investigations. Name service analytics should not be run continuously because they will unnecessarily consume system resources. You can generate an alert if the average latency substantially increases for a period of time, and the alert will appear on the dashboard. To set a threshold alert, see Configuring a Threshold Alert - BUI, CLI.

Name Service Operations Average Latency Breakdowns

Table 6-27 Breakdowns of Name Service Operations Average Latency

Breakdown	Description
raw statistic	Latency as a raw statistic.
database name	Name service database, such as LDAP, DNS, or NIS.
type of operation	Request type.
hit/miss	Result from the cache lookup.
result	Success or fail.

Further Analysis