Moving Beyond Monitoring ... PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick)
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Performance management can be broken into three sequential processes: performance monitoring, performance analysis, and performance modeling. (Fig. 1) Monitoring is the theme of this issue, analysis refers to the capability of looking for patterns in monitored data that reside in a database, while modeling attempts to use monitored data to predict future events, such as resource bottlenecks. PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick) is a queueing analysis tool aimed at expediting the prediction process. Past Present Future Performance modeling Performance monitoring Performance analysis Figure 1: A schematic timeline showing the relationship between performance monitoring, analysis, and modeling
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تاریخ انتشار 2007