Net Connection Pool Monitoring

Number of active connections within appdynamics you can monitor and baseline in your production application the health of your ado net connection pool strategy.

Net connection pool monitoring.

To monitor connection pooling with performance monitor click start point to programs point to administrative tools and then click performance to start performance monitor. Connection pooling reduces the number of times that new connections must be opened. The following illustrates a custom dashboard created to simply monitor the database throughput rate and response time against the size of a connection pool. The socketshttphandler establishes a pool of connections for each unique endpoint which your application makes an outbound http request to via httpclient.

In the performance object drop down list click sql server. Ado net performance counters can be used to monitor the status the connection resources that the application uses. It manages connections by keeping alive a set of active connections for each given connection configuration. On the first request to an endpoint when no existing connections exist a new http connection will be established and used for the request.

The pooler maintains ownership of the physical connection. The following table describes the perfmon counters that you can use to tune pooling for your application. 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. Whenever a user calls open on a connection the pooler looks for an available connection in the pool.

Right click the graph background and then click add counters. Database connections are vital in large enterprise applications. To minimize the cost of opening connections ado net uses an optimization technique called connection pooling.