The first step to analyze application server diagnostics is to locate the application servers you want to analyze.
To pinpoint the relevant application servers, use one or more of the following filters:
When you open the Application Servers window, by default the window shows servers from which transactions were collected in the previous 15 minutes.
The summary filter enables you to quickly filter the application servers in the defined time range.
Click the relevant summary box to display all application servers or only application servers that have transactions with latency violations or errors.
Errors indicate application servers with transactions that returned an error code or an exception, which typically indicates an application availability issue.
Note
The Java version of BMC Application Diagnostics only counts as errors those requests that throw an exception from the entry point. It does not count HTTP errors.
You can use filter boxes that are located under each column heading in the table of application servers. For details about the data in the columns, see Application server table columns.
Filter the table entries in one of the following ways:
You can also sort columns in ascending or descending order by clicking the column heading.
Click Relevant Business Transactions to view the transactions relevant to your filtered settings, in the Business Transactions window.
Business transactions can provide further insight into the root cause of application server problems, because issues with the performance and availability of application servers might be impacted by an application and its transactions. By analyzing the transactions in the Business Transactions window, you can locate problematic transactions at the selected time, and possibly pinpoint the cause.
Note
Filters used in the Application Servers window are applied to the list of business transactions. For example, if you filter the list of servers according to a custom time range and then filtered the list of displayed servers by the name Production, only the business transactions that meet the criteria are displayed.
To view a list of traces for a selected server, click a server name of interest in the table.