How to monitor response times of web applications ??

[dirk.roehrborn]

Hi,

we are using ZABBIX already to monitor operating systems states of our web servers and databases. However due to contractual services levels we would now also like to monitor the reponse times of our webapplications with zabbix and be alerted if certain warning lines are exeeded.

We learned that we can extend zabbix my means of shell scripts (e.g. use wget) but that these must not run longern than 0.5 seconds. The web services (HTTP-Requests) that we monitor sometimes can run longer than that.

Are there any good ways to realize this?

Thanks & regards,
Dirk

[dantheman]

Use an item, type simple check with a key of http_perf<80> you can change 80 if the web server runs on a different port. I'm doing this for three of our IBM AS/400's