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Chapter 3 Working with the Topology Map
Scalability
AppSpeedisarealtimeapplicationperformancetoolthatcollects,analyzes,andstoressubstantialvolumes
ofdatapersecond.ThefollowingparametersaffectAppSpeed’sperformance:
Thenumberofprobesdeployed
Thenumberofmonitoredapplications
Thenumberofmonitoredservers
Thenumberoftransactions
Thevolumeofmonitorednetworktraffic
ThetwomainfactorsaffectingscalabilityinAppSpeedarethenumberofoverallmonitoredobjectsandthe
numberoftransactionsthatarebeingmonitored.AppSpeedreducesthenumberoftransactionsforeach
applicationasadditionalapplicationsaremapped.Thisnumbercanbereducedtoas
fewas50transactions
foreachapplication.AppSpeedstopsdetectingnewserversafterthenumberofmonitoredserversexceeds
500,orthenumberofIPaddressesandportsinthemonitorednetworkexceeds3000.Italsostopsmapping
newapplicationsifthenumberofmonitoredapplicationsexceeds100.