WLSDM: How to monitor Outbound HTTP Socket connection (back-end outbound http/s response times) performance on WebLogic?

In this blog post we prepared monitoring http/s response times performance via WLSDM Back-End system monitoring features.

URLs and URLConnections provide a relatively high-level mechanism for accessing resources on the Internet. Sometimes applications are require lower-level network communication, for example, when you want to write a client-server application.

A socket is one end-point of a two-way communication link between two programs running on the network. Socket classes are used to represent the connection between a client program and a server program. The java.net package provides two classes — Socket and ServerSocket-that implement the client side of the connection and the server side of the connection, respectively.

At this time WLSDM Socket I/O dashboards gives you perfect visualty of server socket speed.

So, how to use Socket I/O dashboards according to your domain and systems?

1. Go to “Monitoring & Diagnostic > Back-end Systems > Socket I/O” and monitor outbound HTTP socket connections performance.

2. You can use chart and list view to monitoring.

3. Switch “List” tab and view socket connection as list.

4. Back-end outbound http/s response time detail modal window as below

5. Configure page and chart options in “Back-end Systems > Socket I/O > Page Operations”

How to add socket I/O event in WLSDM?

6. Go to “Configuration > Monitoring & Diagnostic > Page Operaitons” then click “New Back-end Systems Monitoring” button.

7. In “New Back-end Systems Monitoring” modal window add server and event then click save.

8. Check WLSDM email notification

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