DETERMINING AND MONITORING PERFORMANCE CAPABILITIES OF A COMPUTER RESOURCE SERVICE

摘要

To determine and monitor the performance of a computer resource service in real time, a resource monitoring tool can initiate test virtual machines on the computer systems of the computer resource service. The resource monitoring tool can then monitor various metrics that indicated the performance of the test virtual machines over time, such as processor performance, memory performance, input/output (I/O) performance, and network performance. The resource monitoring tool can store the monitored metrics, provide select metrics to users, and use the metrics to manage the computer resource service. To accurately gauge the performance, the resource monitoring tool can select computer systems for testing that are representative of the computer resource service and the computer resources of the computer resource service.