Real User Monitoring - Generic View

With the Generic View it is possible to create dashboards depending on your needs. The following capabilities are available.

 

Capability NameDescriptionSupported
Request Types		Available Metrics
RUM RequestsMetrics in combination with user locations
All

Average Response Time  

Executions

CPU Time

DB Time

Distinct Users (FRUN 4.0)

Last Execution [Day] (FRUN 4.0)

RUM UI RequestsFront-end measurement for UI requests in combination with user location

SAPUI5 (256)

Web Dynpro (257)

Web GUI (258)

Average E2E Response Time

Backend Time

Network Time

Executions

Number of Roundtrips

RUM HTTP MetricsMetrics for incoming http(s) requests

http (101)

https(102)

Average E2E Response Time

Executions

Client Errors (FRUN 3.0 FP03)

Server Errors (FRUN 3.0 FP03)

Client Error Rate (FRUN 3.0 FP03)

Server Error Rate (FRUN 3.0 FP03)

RUM HTTP Outgoing Metrics

Metrics for outgoing http(s) requests initiated by user requests

(http(s), RFC, DIAG)

outgoing

http (101)  

https(102)

Average E2E Response Time

Executions

RUM Table Accesses

Metrics for table accesses provided by statistic record (tabrec)

(FRUN 3.0 FP03)

All (ABAP)

Response Time

Direct Reads

Sequential Reads

Modifications

Filter (Metric Selection)

Metric Catalog
What should be displayed e.g. number of executions or response times.

Selected
Depending on the metric and the expected result it needs to be defined how a metric should be handled for Time Aggregation. These aggregation values are possible:
Average
When the time range is changed and another resolution is used a new average value is calculated. This makes sense if the result should contain for example the Average Response Time.
MIN
Always the minimum value of the value in the selected time range is provided.
MAX
Always the maximum value of the value in the selected time range is provided.
SUM
The sum of all values is calculated. This makes sense of the result should contain for example the number of executions or the workload of a metric.
COUNT
Provides the number of measurements

When more than one metric should be displayed you can choose which metrics(s) should be displayed on a second axis. When the values of the different metrics are on completely dimensions e.g. one metric is in bytes and another in MBytes a scale factor can be used.

Aggregated
Defines the reference information that should be displayed or not. When a dimension is selected e.g. Request Name the metrics don't contain this name in the result. If you want to have a dimension in the result the Aggregate flag must not be set.
Depending on the dimension the result set can be very huge. To avoid overloading the UI the number of data points is limited. Only the values of the top-n dimensions are displayed the rest will be aggregated to Others.
Each dimension can be filtered.
It is possible to use the wildcard *. If no wildcard is used it uses a substring search. Several values can be separated by character ; (semicolon). A single value can be excluded by using a leading ! (explanation mark)

Examples:

odataAll values are returned containing odata in the name
SE*All values are returned starting with SE
SE*;AL*All values are returned starting with SE ORAL
!Z*All values are returned not starting with Z
!Z*;!Y*All values are returned not starting with Z AND not starting with Y
SE*;!2All values are returned starting with SE AND not containing 2

Some filters must be entered as technical values and are case sensitive. It is recommended to check first how the result would look like by using no filter.

No. of Data Points and Top Rank

The number of data points, resolution and top rank are dependent from each other. To keep the UI responsive and avoid that to many data points need to be rendered, the Resolution is dependent on the selected time range.

Resolution

When resolution Auto is selected it depends on the selected time range:

Time range
Resolution
> 7 days
Day
> 4 hoursHour
< 4 hoursMinute

No. of Data Points

By default the number of data points is limited to 2200.

Top Rank

if no top rank is specified it is calculated as an optimal based on the number of time stamps specified by the Resolution. If the result set would contain more distinct values per time stamp than the specified value or the calculated optimal Rank all other dimensions are aggregated to value Others.

 

Examples:

You define a resolution of 1 Minute and select a long time range. If the selected dimensions for aggregation leads to many different results the result set is truncated to the number of data points. As a result only the latest entries are returned and the beginning of the selected time range might be missing. By decreasing the Top Rank you get probably less entries per time stamp and therefore a longer time range.

Event Propagation

Starting with FRUN 4.0 it is possible to propagate events between views on a customer dashboard. Consuming views react on a selection change  in a source view.

Example: Creating a simple dashboard with two views.

The first view should display the number of executions of the top 20 Requests and the second view should display on a time axis the response times of the request name selected in the first view.

Step by step description

  1. Create a new custom page
  2. Add the Generic View
  3. Under Data Source
    1. Select Resolution = Not Time Axis
    2. Top Rank = 20

 

Click on Select Metrics and choose Executions

 

Go to tab Aggregation and remove the Aggregate flag for Request Name

 

Go to Rendering set the View Title to Executions and choose the Chart Type Bar.

 

Go to View Management and change the Grid Layout by adding a second column.

 

Add another Generic View

Under Data Source click on Select Metrics and choose Average Response Time

 

Go to Selected and set Time Aggregation to Average

 

Go to tab Aggregation and remove the Aggregate flag for Request Name

 

Go to Rendering set the View Title to Response Time.

 

Ensure that the configuration of the second view is still selected and go to Selection Propagation and click on add (+)

 

Choose

Source View = Executions

Consumer Dimension = Request Name

Updated Dimension = Request Name

 

When now one line in the first view (Executions) is selected the chart in the second view (Response Times) is updated and only one request is displayed.