There are many techniques for measuring response times, but only
ARM measures them accurately. Other techniques, although useful in other ways, might
measure business service levels by assuming or guessing what a business
transaction is, and when it begins and ends. Also, other techniques cannot provide the important
information that ARM can, such as whether a transaction completed successfully.
Using ARM, you can log transaction records from an application to do the following:
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determine the application response
times
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determine the workload and throughput
of your applications
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verify that service-level objectives
are being met
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determine why the application is
not available
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verify who is using an application
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determine why a user is experiencing
poor response time
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determine what queries are being
issued by an application
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determine the subcomponents of
an application's response time
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determine which servers are being
used
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calculate the load time for data
warehouses