Pre-requisites
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