Performance Monitor is an operator that allows to monitor the performance of the Hardware Node and Virtuozzo Containers. By monitoring the utilization of the system resources, you can acquire an important information about your Virtuozzo system health. Performance Monitor can track a range of processes in real time and provide you with the results that can be used to identify current and potential problems. It can assist you with the tracking of the processes that need to be optimized, monitoring the results of the configuration changes, identifying the resource usage bottlenecks, and planning of upgrades.
Agent SOAP API provides the perf_monBinding
class that allows to retrieve performance reports from the Hardware Node. The types of reports include the performance of the Hardware Node itself and the performances of the individual Virtuozzo Containers. You can select the type and a particular aspect of the server performance that you would like to see. This performance type is called a class. The performance aspect is called a counter. The following section describes classes and counters in detail.