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GIS Enterprise Reporter now has a companion application “er_compare.exe” that allows you to compare two ArcGIS Enterprise systems.

Measured transaction throughput and response times are critical data of any ArcGIS Enterprise load test, but captured hardware utilization of the deployment machines provide vital information as well. Together, these test artifacts allow for the proper analysis of the capabilities and efficiencies of the Site.

Determining that an application or feature service has achieved a particular level of throughput is good, but confirming the scalability characteristics while also examining the captured processor utilization of the tested workload is even better.

This Article will discuss several ways to capture the machine hardware utilization. This resource usage is a great compliment to the results of an Apache JMeter load test of ArcGIS Enterprise and can help further the analysis. The Article will focus on the most common scenarios using free tools and utilities for Windows and Linux.

Table Of Contents

• Capturing Hardware Utilization During an Apache JMeter Load Test
• Capturing Strategies
  • What Information Should the Load Test Capture?
  • Sample Interval
  • The Difference Between Capturing and Monitoring
  • Test Clients (Load Generator Machines)
  • Understand Your Server Baselines
  • Common Utilization Capturing Examples
    • Using Perfmon (To Capture Utilization Outside of Load Test)
    • Using dstat (To Capture Utilization Outside of Load Test)
    • Using Apache JMeter (To Capture Utilization Directly From Load Test)
• The SampleWorldCities Test Plan With Metric Collection Support 
  • Components of the Test Plan
    • jp@gc - PerfMon Metrics Collector Extension
  • Validate the JMeter-to-ServerAgent Connectivity
• Test Execution
• General Methodology Guide
• Common Utilization Collection Challenges
• Final Thoughts

The System Log Parser (SLP) utility is great for being able to analyze many different "ArcGIS Enterprise" log sources to help quantify the usage of your Site. It is free and includes an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) called SystemLogsGUI.exe. But, did you know it can also be run from the command line via the slp.exe that is included with the download?
Command line capable execution makes a good fit for automation through PowerShell or good old fashioned bat scripts.

The slp.exe executable includes all of the same capabilities. However, you can override many of the limits imposed by the GUI such as: the end time and start time. You can even access features that are not available from the GUI like: searching with specific UTC dates, customizing the name of the report, and enabling the application debug log (for troubleshooting).

The GIS Enterprise Reporter provides a wide variety of information about the services in ArcGIS Enterprise.  This article describes the information gathered by GIS Enterprise Reporter and how to understand it.

Although you are probably familiar with using System Log Parser (SLP) to read logs and help you quantify your ArcGIS Enterprise usage, there is a relatively new feature in this popular, free utility that can make the effort easier and the analysis more powerful. 

The new feature, commonly referred to as the Optimized report in System Log Parser, allows you perform log queries of much larger time spans. In addition, it can perform the parsing faster and with tremendous memory savings over the classic analysis types (e.g. Simple, WithOverviewCharts and Complete).

The Optimized option still generates a spreadsheet-based report statistically summarizing the collected log information into key time focused categories. 

Resources for planning the virtualization of ArcGIS Pro.

The Architecture Practice team in Professional Services have been writing articles to assist the community to plan, design and deploy ArcGIS Enterprise. This purpose of this page is to be a single resource to all these blogs and will be updated as new posts are created.

This is the second article in the GIS Enterprise Reporter series.  The focus of this article is to offer a bit of guidance for running the application.

GIS Enterprise Reporter allows you to clearly document existing deployments of ArcGIS Enterprise (Portal for ArcGIS, federated ArcGIS Server Sites, ArcGIS Data Stores, etc.).  You can use this tool to document and compare deployments in different environments, understand changes over time, etc.

Please note that this tool is not a product of Esri.  It is a tool produced by an employee of Esri and made broadly available in the hopes that it will be useful.  It is provided "as is".

Network Analyst has always been in-demand capability of ArcGIS Enterprise as it provides popular problem solving analysis types such as Route, Service Area, Closest Facility and Origin-Destination Cost Matrix.

This Article contains a walk-through for load testing a route solver service (map-based service) with an Apache JMeter Test Plan. It uses a public accessible dataset in the examples for the data generation and test configuration process. However, the testing procedure should work when using any valid network dataset. This Article assumes you are familiar with Apache JMeter and some of the Test Plan strategies we have been using in other discussions.

Table Of Contents

• Network Analyst Route
• Load Testing a Network Analyst Route Service
• How to Test a Network Analyst Route Service?
  • Network Analyst ArcGIS Pro Tutorial Data
  • Test Data Generation
    • Making the Tools Available from ArcGIS Pro
    • Launch the Generate Data (Solve Route) Tool
    • The Generate Data (Solve Route) Tool Inputs
    • Spatially Visualize the Generated Points
• The Route Solver Test Plan
  • HTTP Request
  • The Thread Group Configuration
• Validating the Test Plan
  • Transactions
  • Requests
• Test Execution
• JMeter Report
  • Throughput Curve
  • Performance Curves
• Final Thoughts