Dashboard

Click the Dashboard button in the row of a test run.

Use one of the following options:

• Right-click an existing tab and select New tab.

• Click the New tab button .

The new tab that is created contains metrics for the latest run of the selected load test. If there is an active run of the load test (that is, it is currently running) then that is considered the latest run.

Use one of the following options:

• Right-click a tab and select Close.
• Click X.

Note:

• A closed tab cannot be re-opened.

• There must be at least one tab open.

The sum of the metric’s anomaly ranks and in parenthesis, the number of anomalies.

OpenText Core Performance Engineering assigns a ranking to each anomaly based on the earliest occurrence, size, and duration of the deviation. The rank represents how the anomaly compares to other anomalies seen for the metric in the same run. The more severe or unusual the anomaly, the higher the rank. The rank range is between 0-5. For details, see Anomalies.

Example:7(2) where 7 is the total sum of the metric’s anomaly ranking (out of a maximum of 10) for the 2 anomalies that occurred during the time period.

Deletes a single empty metric with no data from the dashboard.

Deletes all empty metrics. Alternatively, right-click a metric name and select Delete empty metrics.

An SLA was breached, but the breach did not cause the load test run to fail.

Click the Hide metrics tree button or the Show metrics tree button .

Select or deselect a metric for viewing

Manage the metrics that are displayed in the active tab:

• To select a metric, select the metric name checkbox. The metric is added to the currently active graph and the icon is displayed in dark blue. An icon displayed in light blue indicates that the metric is included in a graph that is currently inactive.

  If a tree node is inactive, click the Expand tree button to drill down, and then select one of the sub-metrics.

• To deselect a metric, clear the metric name checkbox.

• To clear all metrics from the active graph, click the Clear widget button above the metrics tree.

The number of selected metrics is displayed in the Metrics pane.

Add or remove sub-metrics by type

To display a menu showing the number of sub-metrics by type, hover over a metric, and click the click the More options button .

To customize the graph display, select Add or Remove and choose the category to display. Repeat this step for each of the categories that you want to display.

To add or remove all the metrics under the parent metric, select Add or Remove and then select All.

For parent level metrics, you can show the number of related scripts, transactions, locations, and emulations. For detail, see Metrics tree.

Note: The Scripts category is only available for the following metrics: Total transactions per second, Passed transactions per second, and Failed transactions per second.

Search for a metric

Click the magnifying glass icon to open the search box, enter a string and click the magnifying glass icon again to launch the search. The metrics whose name contains the string are displayed in the tree.

Click the Expand button to open or close the tree for that specific metric.

Click the Expand visible button above the metric tree to open the tree for all selected metrics.

Click the More options button in the header of a metrics pane column and select:

• Autosize This Column (for one column)
• Autosize All Columns (for all columns)

Click an enabled metric in the metrics pane to highlight it in the graph. You can highlight multiple metrics by holding down SHIFT or CTRL while clicking the metrics that you want to highlight.

The graph highlights the data lines and the table entry of the metrics.

Add a non-benchmarked run for comparison.

1. Select the radio button for the required run.
2. Click Compare.

1. Add the benchmarked run to the load test for comparison.

2. Click Compare to benchmark.

For details on setting a run as a bench-mark, see Test details and actions.

Note: If you change the benchmark to a different run of the load test, any dashboard that already contains a comparison to the benchmark is updated to reflect the new benchmark run. If you do not want this to happen, click Compare with run id instead of Compare to benchmark. This adds the currently benchmarked run for comparison, but it will not be updated in the event of a benchmark change.

1. Remove the run currently selected for comparison.

2. Click Clear Selection.

3. Click Apply.

By default, the graph's title is comprised of the names of the graph's selected metrics. You can change the graph's title by clicking the edit icon.

Note: If you change the graph's title, the names of newly added or deleted metrics are not added to, or removed from, the new title.

SLA breaches are shown as a shaded area and the SLA threshold is denoted by a horizontal, dashed line. For details, see SLA breaches and anomalies.

For details, see Anomalies.

X-axis, Y-axis

The x-axis of the graph shows the load test run's time line and the y-axis shows the metric's value. If you have selected multiple runs in the dashboard, by default the time line is:

• that of the longest run, if the selected runs do not include an active run.

• that of the active run, if the selected runs include an active run.

For details, see Customize the time frame.

Data point tooltips

To display a tooltip with the metric name, value, and run ID, hover over a data point inside the graph.

By default, the time mode used for all the graphs included in a dashboard tab is the test time. That is, the starting time of zero is the beginning of the test and the time frame is the elapsed time from the start of the test.

You can change the time mode to clock time so that the actual, local clock time is displayed instead.

To change between Test time and Clock time, select the required time display option.

Note:

• The time mode is persistent for the tab.
• If you take a snapshot of a graph, the selected time mode is indicated in the snapshot.

To change the scale of the graphs, select one of the following options:

• No scale. No scale is used for the y-axis and shows actual values.
• Scale. Uses a linear scale for the y-axis and shows actual values.
• Log scale. Uses a logarithmic scale for the y-axis. This can be helpful when the data covers a large range of values, as it reduces the range to a more manageable size.

Note: Graphs for transaction response time breakdown metrics are not scaled.

Stop a test run

Note: This option is available for active runs only.

Click Stop Test to stop an active test run.

Toggle the Graph switch.

Toggle the Legend switch.

When the legend is displayed, you can click a column name to sort the legend table by that column.

In the Columns list, select the columns to show in the table.

You can create a snapshot for a dashboard graph and include it in the load test run's report.

To create a snapshot and add it to the report, click the Add to report button in the toolbar of the graph you want to add. The snapshot is automatically added as a new section in the report. You can add a maximum of 10 snapshots to a report. For details, see Reports.

Click the Find icon to enter the search text for a specific metric.

Split horizontal

Click the Split horizontal button to split the current graph into two horizontally. One graph contains the original data, and the other graph is a new, empty graph.

To populate the new, empty graph, click it to make it active and then select the metrics you want to show.

Click the Split vertical button to vertically split the current graph into two graphs. One graph contains the original data, and the other graph is a new, empty graph.

To populate the new, empty graph, click it to make it active and then select the metrics you want to appear in it.

Click the TRX Summary button.

Click within a graph to select a specific time in the run. The views of all the graphs are updated accordingly and the metric values displayed in the Value column in the metrics pane are also updated. The specific time selected is displayed in a time counter in the graph area.

You can change the time range for which graph results are displayed using one of these options:

• Drag, stretch, or shrink the time slider.
• Place the cursor in the graph area and drag it to select a time range.
• Manually change the start and end time counters located above the graphs.

Note: This option is available for active runs only.

From the drop-down list, select a preset time frame to view. The time frame is the last selected number of minutes of the run.

Available options are 5, 15, 30, and 60 minutes. The default time frame is five minutes.

The graph is refreshed automatically every five seconds.

If you use the time slider to select a time frame, Manual appears in the preset box and the graph is no longer automatically refreshed.