{"id":4248,"date":"2013-09-06T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T19:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/?p=4248"},"modified":"2018-05-25T14:50:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T18:50:19","slug":"dynatrace-load-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2013\/09\/dynatrace-load-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"DynaTrace Support in Web Performance Load Tester 5.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DynaTrace (now known as &#8220;Compuware APM for Enterprise Tiers&#8221;) is a tool to analyze performance as requests pass from the front-end webserver back to various application servers, database servers, and web services. It&#8217;s marketed as a way to obtain deep insight into performance problems without the overhead and inconvenience of other more intrusive profiling tools. During a load test, DynaTrace works best if requests are annotated with metadata. We added a feature to emit <a title=\"DynaTrace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dynatrace.com\" target=\"_blank\">DynaTrace<\/a>-compatible metadata to Load Tester 5.4.<\/p>\n<p>DynaTrace support is a premium feature sold separately from Load Tester PRO or our other offerings, but you can experiment with it using Load Tester&#8217;s demo mode. Start by choosing the &#8220;Enable dynaTrace&#8221; checkbox in the &#8220;Testcase Properties&#8221; dialog box, found by right clicking on a testcase or under the &#8220;options&#8221; menu inside the testcase editor.<\/p>\n<p>When enabled, we emit the following pieces of information under the &#8220;x-dynaTrace&#8221; header:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SN = Testcase name, as defined in Load Tester&#8217;s Navigator View.<\/li>\n<li>VU = A user-provided value representing the identity of the virtual user.<\/li>\n<li>ID = A ID number uniquely generated as each HTTP request is sent over the wire.<\/li>\n<li>TE = Load test name, as defined the Load Tester&#8217;s Navigator View.<\/li>\n<li>SI = The string, &#8220;WebPerformanceLoadTester&#8221; identifying the Load Tester product (as opposed to some other source of traffic).<\/li>\n<li>NA = The path of the request.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will be able to see these values in the Headers View after running a replay or in the content of any error that gets returned during a load test. More importantly, the dynaTrace tools recognize these values and incorporate them into their own performance analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DynaTrace (now known as &#8220;Compuware APM for Enterprise Tiers&#8221;) is a tool to analyze performance as requests pass from the front-end webserver back to various application servers, database servers, and web services. It&#8217;s marketed as a way to obtain deep insight into performance problems without the overhead and inconvenience of other more intrusive profiling tools. During a load test, DynaTrace works best if requests are annotated with metadata. We added a feature to emit <a title=\"DynaTrace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dynatrace.com\" target=\"_blank\">DynaTrace<\/a>-compatible metadata to Load Tester 5.4.<br \/>\nDynaTrace support is a premium feature sold separately from Load Tester PRO or our other offerings, but you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2013\/09\/dynatrace-load-testing\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,42],"tags":[186,185,174,30],"class_list":["post-4248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-load-testing","category-load-tester-software","tag-compuware-apm-for-enterprise-tiers","tag-dynatrace","tag-how-to","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4248"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6067,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4248\/revisions\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}