How to get the Application Server CPU Usage while running the performance testing in VSTS

Question

Am do a performance testing using VSTS 2010 to test the performance of a webapplication developed using sharepoint. Web application is running in 4 server with distributed load. 

Now while am running the performance testing scripts for 1000 users, I would like to know the usage of each Application Server while running the performance testing.

Answer 1

Hi Karthikeyan,

I don’t very understand which server you want to monitor.

If you want the CPU usage of the Web application’s server, you can click Add Computer in Manage Counter Sets to add the computer where the server is located on to monitor. In addition, you must add the computer to the Performance Monitor Users group in your test controller. Then you can know the CPU usage of the server by the %Processor Time Counter.

The link below about how to manage counter sets using the Load Test Editor may help you:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404676

If you want to know the CPU usage of four test agents where your test runs, every agent’s CPU usage will be displayed under the Controller and Agents in the load test results. You can analyze the %Processor Time to get it.

I hope this will be helpful to you.

Best regards,

Amanda