Analysis of application performance and its change via representative application signatures

Abstract—Application servers are a core component of a multitier architecture that has become the industry standard for building scalable client-server applications. A client communicates with a service deployed as a multi-tier application via request-reply transactions. A typical server reply consists of the web page dynamically generated by the application server. The application server may issue multiple database calls while preparing the reply. Understanding the cascading effects of the various tasks that are sprung by a single request-reply transaction is a challenging task. Furthermore, significantly shortened time between new software releases further exacerbates the problem of thoroughly evaluating the performance of an updated application. We address the problem of efficiently diagnosing essential performance changes in application behavior in order to provide timely feedback to application designers and service providers. In this work, we propose a new approach based on a...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: NOMS
• Authors: Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherkasova, Kivanc M. Ozonat, Julie Symons, Evgenia Smirni
• Keywords: Application Server, Application Signatures, Communications, Multi-tier Applications, NOMS 2008