Are your DBAs and storage engineers always at odds about the source of performance issues?
LogicMonitor Hosted Monitoring provides a unique solution to monitoring NetApp filers and NetCaches. With no configuration required, LogicMonitor will discover and keep up-to-date all the active interfaces, volumes, and LUNs on your filers. By utilizing the NetApp API, LogicMonitor provides far more detail about a NetApp than purely snmp based monitoring systems.
Latency Monitoring
Not only will LogicMonitor provide NetApp monitoring of CPU load, network bandwidth, and total IO operations – it also provides you the metrics that matter most – latency for reads and writes per volume. Latency is what affects your applications, and your users. If you aren’t tracking latency, you aren’t tracking what NetApp recommends as the primary metric for performance monitoring.
With LogicMonitor, it’s simple to determine if application slowdowns are a result of NetApp performance – if the NetApp latency is the same as historical trends, you can quickly eliminate it as a source of slowdown, and focus on other areas. If latency is high, LogicMonitor will show you whether it is due to high CPU, or overloaded spindles – and if the CPU is high, it will quickly identify which volume is experiencing unusual numbers of IO operations.
When using LogicMonitor to monitor NetApp filers, with no configuration you will have performance trending and alerts on:
- Every active interface
- Total CPU usage, disk activity, IO per second, cache age, consistency point activity
- Per volume space, inode and snapshot utilization
- Per volume read and write latency, IO operations per second and throughput
- Health checks for disk, fan and power supply failures, and even if autosupport is correctly configured
- LUN queue depth
Without LogicMonitor, it is very hard to determine the source of high activity on filers with multiple volumes. With LogicMonitor, it’s simple. Automatically created overview graphs let you see the IO operations of all your volumes at a glance.
If LogicMonitor detects that the NetApp being monitored is a NetCache, it will automatically collect additional statistics about cache hit rates, hit and miss response times, etc.
