Performance Monitor Plugin

Version: 1.0

Status:

PerformanceMonitor plugin for Thunder framework.

Introduction

Scope

This document describes purpose and functionality of the PerformanceMonitor plugin. It includes detailed specification about its configuration, methods and properties provided.

Case Sensitivity

All identifiers of the interfaces described in this document are case-sensitive. Thus, unless stated otherwise, all keywords, entities, properties, relations and actions should be treated as such.

Acronyms, Abbreviations and Terms

The table below provides and overview of acronyms used in this document and their definitions.

Acronym	Description
API	Application Programming Interface
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation; a data interchange format
JSON-RPC	A remote procedure call protocol encoded in JSON

The table below provides and overview of terms and abbreviations used in this document and their definitions.

Term	Description
callsign	The name given to an instance of a plugin. One plugin can be instantiated multiple times, but each instance the instance name, callsign, must be unique.

References

Ref ID	Description
HTTP	HTTP specification
JSON-RPC	JSON-RPC 2.0 specification
JSON	JSON specification
Thunder	Thunder API Reference

Description

Retrieve the performance measurement against given package size.

The plugin is designed to be loaded and executed within the Thunder framework. For more information about the framework refer to [Thunder].

Configuration

The table below lists configuration options of the plugin.

Name	Type	M/O	Description
callsign	string	mandatory	Plugin instance name (default: PerformanceMonitor)
classname	string	mandatory	Class name: PerformanceMonitor
locator	string	mandatory	Library name: libThunderPerformanceMonitor.so
startmode	string	mandatory	Determines in which state the plugin should be moved to at startup of the framework

Interfaces

This plugin implements the following interfaces:

PerformanceMonitor.json (version 1.0.0) (uncompliant-collapsed format)

Methods

The following methods are provided by the PerformanceMonitor plugin:

PerformanceMonitor interface methods:

Method	Description
clear	Clear all performance data collected
send	Interface to test send data
receive	Interface to test receive data
exchange	Interface to test exchange data

clear ^method

Clear all performance data collected.

Parameters

This method takes no parameters.

Result

Name	Type	M/O	Description
result	null	mandatory	Always null (default: None)

Example

Request

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 42,
  "method": "PerformanceMonitor.1.clear"
}

Response

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 42,
  "result": null
}

send ^method

Interface to test send data.

Parameters

Name	Type	M/O	Description
params	object	mandatory	...
params?.data	string	optional	Any string data upto the size specified in the length
params?.length	integer	optional	Size of the data
params?.duration	integer	optional	Duration of the measurements

Result

Name	Type	M/O	Description
result	integer	mandatory	Size of data received by the jsonrpc interface

Example

Request

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 42,
  "method": "PerformanceMonitor.1.send",
  "params": {
    "data": "abababababab",
    "length": 0,
    "duration": 0
  }
}

Response

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 42,
  "result": 0
}

receive ^method

Interface to test receive data.

Parameters

Name	Type	M/O	Description
params	integer	mandatory	Size of data to be provided by the jsonrpc interface

Result

Name	Type	M/O	Description
result	object	mandatory	...
result?.data	string	optional	Any string data upto the size specified in the length
result?.length	integer	optional	Size of the data
result?.duration	integer	optional	Duration of the measurements

Example

Request

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 42,
  "method": "PerformanceMonitor.1.receive",
  "params": 0
}

Response

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 42,
  "result": {
    "data": "abababababab",
    "length": 0,
    "duration": 0
  }
}

exchange ^method

Interface to test exchange data.

Parameters

Name	Type	M/O	Description
params	object	mandatory	...
params?.data	string	optional	Any string data upto the size specified in the length
params?.length	integer	optional	Size of the data
params?.duration	integer	optional	Duration of the measurements

Result

Name	Type	M/O	Description
result	object	mandatory	...
result?.data	string	optional	Any string data upto the size specified in the length
result?.length	integer	optional	Size of the data
result?.duration	integer	optional	Duration of the measurements

Example

Request

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 42,
  "method": "PerformanceMonitor.1.exchange",
  "params": {
    "data": "abababababab",
    "length": 0,
    "duration": 0
  }
}

Response

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 42,
  "result": {
    "data": "abababababab",
    "length": 0,
    "duration": 0
  }
}

Properties

The following properties are provided by the PerformanceMonitor plugin:

PerformanceMonitor interface properties:

Property	R/W	Description
measurement	read-only	Retrieve the performance measurement against given package size

measurement ^property

Provides access to the retrieve the performance measurement against given package size. Measurements will be provided in milliseconds.

This property is read-only.

The package size parameter shall be passed as the index to the property, i.e. measurement@<package-size>.

Index

Name	Type	M/O	Description
package-size	string	mandatory	Size of package whose statistics info has to be retrieved

Value

Name	Type	M/O	Description
(property)	object	mandatory	Retrieve the performance measurement against given package size. Measurements will be provided in milliseconds
(property).serialization	object	mandatory	Time taken to complete serialization
(property).serialization?.minimum	integer	optional	Minimum value of measurements
(property).serialization?.maximum	integer	optional	Maximum value of measurements
(property).serialization?.average	integer	optional	Average value of measurements
(property).serialization?.count	integer	optional	How many times measurement has been collected
(property).deserialization	object	mandatory	Time taken to complete deserialization
(property).deserialization?.minimum	integer	optional	Minimum value of measurements
(property).deserialization?.maximum	integer	optional	Maximum value of measurements
(property).deserialization?.average	integer	optional	Average value of measurements
(property).deserialization?.count	integer	optional	How many times measurement has been collected
(property).execution	object	mandatory	Time taken to complete execution
(property).execution?.minimum	integer	optional	Minimum value of measurements
(property).execution?.maximum	integer	optional	Maximum value of measurements
(property).execution?.average	integer	optional	Average value of measurements
(property).execution?.count	integer	optional	How many times measurement has been collected
(property).threadpool	object	mandatory	Time taken to complete threadpool wait
(property).threadpool?.minimum	integer	optional	Minimum value of measurements
(property).threadpool?.maximum	integer	optional	Maximum value of measurements
(property).threadpool?.average	integer	optional	Average value of measurements
(property).threadpool?.count	integer	optional	How many times measurement has been collected
(property).communication	object	mandatory	Time taken to complete communication
(property).communication?.minimum	integer	optional	Minimum value of measurements
(property).communication?.maximum	integer	optional	Maximum value of measurements
(property).communication?.average	integer	optional	Average value of measurements
(property).communication?.count	integer	optional	How many times measurement has been collected
(property).total	object	mandatory	Time taken to complete whole jsonrpc process
(property).total?.minimum	integer	optional	Minimum value of measurements
(property).total?.maximum	integer	optional	Maximum value of measurements
(property).total?.average	integer	optional	Average value of measurements
(property).total?.count	integer	optional	How many times measurement has been collected

Name	Type	M/O	Description
(property)	null	mandatory	Always null (default: None)

Example

Get Request

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 42,
  "method": "PerformanceMonitor.1.measurement@1000"
}

Get Response

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 42,
  "result": null
}

Performance Monitor Plugin

Table of Contents

Introduction

Scope

Case Sensitivity

Acronyms, Abbreviations and Terms

References

Description

Configuration

Interfaces

Methods

clear method

Parameters

Result

Example

Request

Response

send method

Parameters

Result

Example

Request

Response

receive method

Parameters

Result

Example

Request

Response

exchange method

Parameters

Result

Example

Request

Response

Properties

measurement property

Index

Value

Example

Get Request

Get Response

clear ^method

send ^method

receive ^method

exchange ^method

measurement ^property