Real-time monitoring of computer system processor and transaction performance during an ongoing performance test

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses are described for real-time monitoring of computer system processor and transaction performance during an ongoing performance test. A plurality of monitoring agent processes executing on a processor of a first computing device in a computer system testing environment extracts performance data relating to the ongoing performance test in the computer system testing environment by scraping CPU usage data, analyzing submitted transaction data as stored in a transaction log file and executing search queries against a transaction database in the computing system testing environment to generate a transaction lifecycle dataset. A second computing device retrieves files stored at a predetermined location and generates one or more graphical representations of the performance data contained in the files for display, the graphical representations including at least one interactive chart to indicate a relationship between the CPU usage data, the submitted transaction data, and the transaction lifecycle dataset.