IBM WebSphere Performance Tuning Toolkit (PTT)

IBM WebSphere Performance Tuning Toolkit (PTT) is designed to help users tune the performance of WAS using statistical technology. The toolkit collects performance data and consolidates it into a multidimensional data cube.

- Find potential performance problems
PTT shows detailed status of system with easily understood charts and forms. Users can analyze the performance data from various perspectives.
PTT helps to find an error as soon as it occurs - monitor the servlet errors, transaction rollback, transaction timeout, JDBC connection timeout, thread hung, etc.

- Accelerate performance tuning process
User can tune many servers in one step in a centralized view by running tuning scripts within the workbench, download or upload performance related settings manually or via script

- Health Check
PTT can detect the performance decline and take actions automatically based on predefined rules. Rule engine detects the abnormal symptoms according to user defined rules (with ability to create and edit existing rules)

- Operations to facilitate problems determination
PTT can generate thread dump and heap dump for the JVM, enable trace settings, extract the connection pool contents

- Report engine
Online and offline analysis and reporting (generate, export and print report)

Competitive products do not provide this level of flexibility and power in the area of performance monitoring. Those using WebLogic, JBoss and Tomcat must spend considerably more effort finding all the right tuning variables. In these products the monitoring data is scattered across multiple locations in the Admin GUIs or worse – only available for custom JMX programs

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