web transaction monitoring?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jason Martin wrote:
> 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.
> 

Assuming he knows what he wants the script to buy, a simple shell/perl 
wrapper around check_http should do just fine. Whatever page is 
generated back is pretty irrelevant apart from perhaps a few key values 
(session ID and such, which can easily be grep'ed from output) since the 
next step is known before hand at all times.

I'm thinking perl for at least millisecond precision, even though I'm 
not very fond of it.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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