Web Server performance measurement software tools

[Shivkumar]

Dear Sirs,

I remember for measuring performance and hits of a web server the "WebTrend" software is being used on sun solaris platform etc (I never used myself). Probably it may be available on hpux boxes also.

My question is what are the other software tools being used to measure the performance and hits for the web servers like HP Apache and iPlanet etc ?

I believe we just provide the input file of the web server such as "access log" to the tool.

Does HP's OpenView has this capability ?

Thanks,
Shiv

Thanks,
Shiv

[Arunvijai_4 · Accepted solution]

Hi Shiv,

There are many Opensource tools available for performance testing, you can use Apache JMeter

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

It is just a Java application, you can download and use it on your HP-UX to measure performance.

-Arun

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Shiv, Another web site testing tool,

http://hammerhead.sourceforge.net/

-Arun

[Muthukumar_5]

Do you mean benchmarking tools or log file analysers?

Benchmarking tools will generate http requests (dump) to web server and find out the performance.

Log file analysers will use access.log file to give web access usage. So both are different.

You can get polygraph (opensource) for benchmarking. awstatus for apache log file analysis.

-Muthu

[Shivkumar]

I need "log file analyzers". I want to give input as "access log" of the web server and need the response time of the http requests.

Regards,
Shiv

[Shivkumar]

If anyone has shell or perl script to parse the "access log" that would be great.

Regards,
Shiv

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Shiv, You can use awstat to analyse Apache log files and see the stats. More information is available at,

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/

-Arun

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Shiv, there are some more log file analyzers available to use, here is one http://www.analog.cx/ This is a free opensource utility written in C.

-Arun

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Shiv, some more tools and comparison among them

http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_compare.html

-Arun

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Shiv,

Webtrends itself is a log analyzer. It runs on Sun and Windows. All it needs for most of its traffic analysis is the log files. Its not necessary that it run on the server the web server is running on.

All of the tools listed above are log analyzers. If they don't run right on your platform of choice, merely transship(ftp whatever) the logs to an OS of choice.

SEP

[Ted Buis]

I would be surprised if there wasn't an OpenView product that could help you, but why not take advantage of HP Openview Sales and talk directly to them.

[Shivkumar]

Ted Buis,

Actually i am looking out for HP OpenView solution. If i come to know the name of the tool in this product suite then i can recommend.

Thanks,
Shiv

[Ted Buis]

http://managementsoftware.hp.com/products/ovis/index.html

Best I could find.

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Shiv, you can find the Openview products list here http://managementsoftware.hp.com/products/a-z.html

-Arun