Net Connection Pool Monitoring

The socketshttphandler establishes a pool of connections for each unique endpoint which your application makes an outbound http request to via httpclient.

Net connection pool monitoring.

Number of active connections within appdynamics you can monitor and baseline in your production application the health of your ado net connection pool strategy. Right click the graph background and then click add counters. In the performance object drop down list click sql server. Connection pooling reduces the number of times that new connections must be opened.

The pooler maintains ownership of the physical connection. Improper usage of connections leads to performance issues. It manages connections by keeping alive a set of active connections for each given connection configuration. Database connections are vital in large enterprise applications.

Ado net performance counters can be used to monitor the status the connection resources that the application uses. The following table describes the perfmon counters that you can use to tune pooling for your application. On the first request to an endpoint when no existing connections exist a new http connection will be established and used for the request. To minimize the cost of opening connections ado net uses an optimization technique called connection pooling.

To monitor connection pooling with performance monitor click start point to programs point to administrative tools and then click performance to start performance monitor. Whenever a user calls open on a connection the pooler looks for an available connection in the pool. Tracking connection pool performance all datadirect connect for ado net data providers install a set of performance monitor perfmon counters that return information that lets you tune your applications for performance.