API

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API Widget

From the API widget, you can:

  1. Monitor the overall health status for the API Server.

  2. View the health status for each parameter.

  3. Configure the API parameters to define their health status.

API Parameters

The parameters available in the API widget are:

API Parameter

Description

API Service

Shows whether the API Service is running or not.

App Pool Health

Shows whether the health of the partition that contains the application is online or not.

Data Pool Health

Shows whether the health of the partition that contains the application logs and Fabric Storage is online or not.

R Pool Health

Shows whether the health of the partition that contains the Operating System is online or not.

Available Memory

Shows the available memory that the system can use, which includes free memory and cached memory.

Free Memory

Shows the remaining memory after allocating the memory to all the available processes.

I/O Wait

Shows the time (in milliseconds) for which the CPU is idle while waiting for an I/O operation to complete.

Idle Percent

Shows of the CPU percentage that is unused for a particular time-frame.

Inactive Memory

Shows the total memory allocated to the processes that are no longer running.

Average Load

Shows the average value of the CPU load over the last five minutes.

Only an entirely idle CPU has an average load of zero.

Total Disk Usage

Shows the total percentage of the disk used in the system.

Warning

If the status of the App Pool Health, the Data Pool Health, or the R Pool Health parameters is not online, contact the LogPoint Support team.

Monitoring the Overview of API

  1. Go to Dashboard.

  2. Click Overview in the API widget.

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    API Overview

The Network Graph represents the API and its eight parameters.

Configuring Parameters

  1. Go to Dashboard.

  2. Click the Configure (configure) icon in the API widget.

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    Configure API Icon

  3. Enter the Duration and the Threshold values, and change the direction of each parameter as required.

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    Configure API Settings

    In the screenshot above, the I/O Wait of the API becomes unhealthy:

    • if it is more than 50 ms on average over the last 6 hours or

    • if it becomes more than 50 ms at any point of time over the last 6 hours.

    Similarly, the Available Memory of the API becomes unhealthy:

    • if it is less than 5% on average over the last 6 hours or

    • if it becomes less than 5% at any point of time over the last 6 hours.

  4. Click Save.

Monitoring the Visualization of Parameters

  1. Go to Dashboard.

  2. Click Drill-down in the API widget.

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    API Drill-down Page

  3. Click to see service status.

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    API Drill-down Page with Service Status


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