web transaction monitoring?

[Jason Martin]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:00:52PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Or check_http --help. It can handle what you want.
The original poster was looking for something a bit heavier than
what check_http offers. Check_http allows for checking the
response time of a particular query  / web page. The poster was
looking for something more along the lines of "How long does it
take to submit an order", which might involve the step of
authenticating via a non-HTTP-auth login (think amazon.com), put
an item in a shopping cart, follow the steps for entering CC
info, and finally hitting submit. This might involve 10
different webpages, but the desired functionality is for the
overall time instead of just one particular click.  

This sort of monitoring requires sending queries and taking the
output of a prior page and using it to generate the next query.
As such check_http isn't really appropriate for this sort of
task. It pretty much requires some sort of 'test engine', or at
least a script that can do the multi-step process to come up
with a timing.

-Jason Martin

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