This topic describes how to enable request metrics.
About this task
Request metrics is a tool that enables you to track individual transactions,
recording the processing time in each of the major WebSphere® Application Server components.
You can enable request metrics from the following locations:
- The administrative console. To enable request metrics in the administrative
console, refer to the instructions under the Steps for this task section that
follows.
- Command line. Java Management Extensions (JMX) interfaces are exposed
for enabling request metrics through external tools. For more details on the
exposed interfaces, refer to the request metrics API documentation.
To enable request metrics in the administrative console:
What to do next
To ensure that the web server plug-in recognizes the changes you
made for the request metrics configuration, follow the steps in
Regenerating the web server plug-in configuration file, if logging time spent in the
web server.