Estimated Time: 25 minutes
1. Preface
PCF Metrics provides application metrics for your application directly inside cloudfoundry. It’s an innovative tool that combines application events, metrics (cpu, memory, network), and logs into a powerful view that can help you monitor and gain insight into your application’s behavior over time. In this lab you’ll take a little time to explore PCF Metrics and its user interface.
2. Exercises
2.1. PCF Metrics Overview
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Review the documentation on PCF Metrics.
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Review the documentation on PCF Metrics.
2.2. Explore PCF Metrics
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Log into PCF Metrics and explore the views for
articulate
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Generate some traffic to
articulate
and observe the effects.
Optionally use the JMeter script from the Application Autoscaler lab to generate some traffic.
2.3. Questions
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What might a spike in memory indicate?