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What are server metrics?

We can improve the health of our apps with a better understanding of the server metrics. Almost all the servers have similar performance metrics. Many server infrastructure monitoring tools are available on the market nowadays to ease this task. Most Linux server management solutions include a monitoring GUI which we can easily use through a web browser.

The metrics are of two types:

1. App Performance Metrics
2. User Experience Metrics

Let’s look into the details of each of them.

App Performance Metrics

Metrics for finding app performance are particular to how quickly active web apps are. The different types are as follows:

1. Throughput: It is the total number of requests sent to the server each second. This essential statistic monitors how well a web server is doing at handling requests, which is what it’s really there for.

2. Data-in/Data-out: It contains details about the size of the request payload sent to the web server. Lower rates are preferable for this measure. An app may be asking for more data than it needs if the data in measurement is high.

The payload of the response that is sent to clients is data out. As websites grow over time, this becomes an issue, especially for users with weaker network connections.

3. Average response time: It is the length of time it typically takes for the server to reply to each request. This measure provides a clear picture of the application’s total performance.

4. Peak response time: It finds the lengthiest answers to all queries made through the server.

5. Hardware usage: The resources allotted to a server or app find how much of each they may use. As a result, monitoring resource usage is essential, particularly to discover whether a resource bottleneck is present. The three main hardware resources are processor, memory, and disk space & usage.

6. Thread count: It displays how many requests are being processed constantly by the server at any given moment. We may use this measure to determine how a server is generally loaded at the request level.

User Experience Metrics

It helps find how happy the users are with the web apps overall.

7. Uptime: The uptime of a server shows its availability as a percentage. So if possible, we should aim for 100% uptime, however, while looking at web hosting apps, we’ll often see examples of 99.9% uptime.

8. HTTP server error rate: It gives the total number of internal server problems (also known as HTTP 5xx codes) that were given to clients. When an exception or other issue is not being handled properly, malfunctioning apps will return these errors.

We may keep informed of any faults happening by receiving notifications of all HTTP server failures. This avoids the problem of the program accumulating errors over time.

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Conclusion

The article provides a brief note on some of the important metrics we should consider while selecting the servers.