Re: [squid-users] Proxy performance monitoring

Ivan . wrote:
> thanks
>
> What am I looking for is something more along these lines.
>
> http://www.webperformanceinc.com/library/files/proxy_server_performance.pdf
>
>
> cheers
> Ivan

Oh.

That paper describes requirements for a lab test. The good test
software; polygraph etc, have not changed AFAIK so go with those
mentioned if you want to.

What your initial email seemed to describe was for monitoring live
production installation performance.

Be aware these are very different. Throwing lab data at a production
server to a real remote web service is a very quick way to get yourself
a huge bandwidth bill and annoyed phone calls.

Amos

>
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>> Ivan . wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I recently implemented a new proxy system. I am looking at doing is
>>> setting a periodical test that
>>> goes out to the Internet, pull some content down and record the
>>> relevant metrics.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PC------------>Proxy----------->FW------------------>Internet---------------->Site-with-content
>>>
>>>
>>> Some sort of scheduled process on a PC, that pulls down some static
>>> content from the same website, which is repeatable. The application
>>> would then record metrics such as speed, time taken to download the
>>> static content and log that.
>>>
>> Squid native access.log contains transfer duration and size metrics.
>> Some other options not in the default format provide additional metrics if
>> you need them.
>> See http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/logformat/ for a lit of log
>> metrics.
>>
>> Otherwise the SNMP counters can be used, but they do not go down as fine
>> grained as indvidual requests.
>>
>> Amos
>> --
>> Please be using
>> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.1
>>

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Please be using
   Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.1