Before you start using Performance Management Best Practices guide, ensure that you have a clear understanding of performance, throughput, and capacity goals that you want to target. For example following is the list of parameters that you should know beforehand:
Data Volumes
- Number of sources, targets, and databases
- Number of files per day and per week and per month
- Number during peak hour
- Types of input and output files or databases
- Average and Max size of files or data sets
- File processing SLA’s such as response times, acknowledgement time
Real-time Transactions
- Number of published APIs/Web Services
- Number of concurrent calls and number of calls during peak hour
- SLAs and Response time
- Number of applications or APIs connected to
Events
- Number and type of events
- Number of polling or listener events
Users
- Number of Developers, Internal operational users, and External partner users
- Expected number of partner entities
- Ability to support the number many concurrent users: 10, 50, 100, or 500