{"id":4519,"date":"2016-06-08T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T16:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2023-06-26T07:21:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T11:21:48","slug":"the-biggest-citrix-performance-monitoring-misconception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/the-biggest-citrix-performance-monitoring-misconception\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Needed for Citrix Performance Monitoring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/citrix-performance-myth.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4553 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/citrix-performance-myth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"206\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/citrix-performance-myth.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/citrix-performance-myth-140x146.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>There has been a lot of confusion around what tools and technologies are required to effectively monitor\u00a0Citrix infrastructures. Rachel Berry, who was a product manager at Citrix, wrote on her blog about the <a href=\"https:\/\/virtuallyvisual.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/17\/find-monitoring-products-for-citrix-xenapp-and-xendesktop-part-2-an-enormous-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enormous number of monitoring solutions<\/a>\u00a0available that could be used for Citrix infrastructures.\u00a0And even earlier, Brian Madden and Kevin Goodman applied the term YAM, meaning &#8220;Yet Another Monitor,&#8221;\u00a0their analysis being that there is\u00a0a very large number of tools available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/supported-technologies\/citrix-monitoring\/performance-monitoring-tools\">Citrix performance monitoring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rachel-berry-excerpt.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rachel-berry-excerpt.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Berry Excerpt - Citrix Performance Monitoring Software\" width=\"567\" height=\"498\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rachel-berry-excerpt.jpg 820w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rachel-berry-excerpt-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rachel-berry-excerpt-800x702.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rachel-berry-excerpt-310x272.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/rachel-berry-excerpt-140x123.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But are there really tens to hundreds of practical options for monitoring Citrix?\u00a0No, the number is\u00a0considerably smaller\u00a0and here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Server Monitoring \u2260\u00a0Citrix Monitoring<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Monitoring tools that look at server CPU, memory, disk and network resources are very common, and almost every monitoring tool today supports these capabilities. Most of them can also monitor processes and services running on the servers and alert the administrator if any service is not running or a process is consuming too much CPU or memory.<\/p>\n<p>Although server monitoring is a requirement for Citrix monitoring \u2013 after all, Citrix applications do run on servers\u00a0\u2013\u00a0server monitoring is only one component of successful\u00a0Citrix monitoring.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Understanding the Cause of Typical Citrix User Issues is Complex<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Consider just a few of the types of problems\u00a0that Citrix administrators typically encounter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Users complain that their Citrix session disconnects often.<\/em><br \/>\nThe ability to detect\u00a0whether or not\u00a0a desktop session is connected is a\u00a0basic requirement\u00a0for Citrix monitoring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Users complain about Citrix logon problems.<\/em><br \/>\nA Citrix monitoring tool must be able to track\u00a0whether\u00a0Citrix logons are working properly or not. If they are slow, where is the slowness? \u00a0Is it due to profile loading, or due to authentication with the Active Directory server, or due to Group policy (GPO) processing?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Users complain about keystroke lags or slow screen refresh.<\/em><br \/>\nWhen a user complains of keystroke lags, is it because of the Citrix servers or is it due to the network connection between the user terminal and the Citrix farm?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/capabilities-of-a-citrix-monitoring-solution2.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a more comprehensive look at what\u00a0a Citrix monitoring solution needs to include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/capabilities-of-a-citrix-monitoring-solution11.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4696\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/capabilities-of-a-citrix-monitoring-solution11.png\" alt=\"Capabilities of Citrix Monitoring Solution \" width=\"711\" height=\"456\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/capabilities-of-a-citrix-monitoring-solution11.png 904w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/capabilities-of-a-citrix-monitoring-solution11-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/capabilities-of-a-citrix-monitoring-solution11-800x513.png 800w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/capabilities-of-a-citrix-monitoring-solution11-310x199.png 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/capabilities-of-a-citrix-monitoring-solution11-140x90.png 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 711px) 100vw, 711px\" \/><\/a>A monitoring solution capable of solving these problems must be aware of each\u00a0of these Citrix-specific performance issues and their probable causes.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Wide Range of Impacting Factors<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The number of Citrix tiers has increased over the years. Today, a Citrix infrastructure can have Citrix StoreFronts, Citrix Delivery Controllers, Citrix NetScalers, Citrix Provisioning servers, Citrix license servers, Citrix XenApp servers, Citrix XenServers, Citrix XenDesktops, and so on. A performance monitoring solution for Citrix must have monitoring capabilities specific to each of these tiers. Examples of such metrics include boot times from Citrix provisioning servers, concurrent license usage from license servers, connection failures and unregistered desktops on a Delivery Controller. And there are many more.<\/p>\n<p>Also,\u00a0since performance issues with infrastructure services\u00a0\u2013 such as\u00a0Active Directory and profile servers, virtualization platforms, and storage \u2013 can\u00a0impact\u00a0Citrix performance, effective Citrix monitoring needs to include\u00a0end-to-end infrastructure visibility, across every layer of every tier.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Learn More<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Applying\u00a0the\u00a0above\u00a0considerations, you will find that you actually have less than half a dozen practical Citrix monitoring choices to select from, not a hundred different tools. Among the\u00a0Citrix-specific\u00a0options,\u00a0there are still important\u00a0differences in approach, usability and more.<\/p>\n<p>Jo Harder of Virtualization Practice created a comprehensive\u00a0checklist to help simplify the\u00a0Citrix performance monitoring selection process. It&#8217;s an excellent research tool\u00a0that can greatly speed up your investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/white-paper\/citrix-infrastructure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/key-considerations-whitepaper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/key-considerations-whitepaper.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/key-considerations-whitepaper-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/key-considerations-whitepaper-768x181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/key-considerations-whitepaper-800x188.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/key-considerations-whitepaper-310x73.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/key-considerations-whitepaper-140x33.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of confusion around what tools and technologies are required to effectively monitor\u00a0Citrix infrastructures. Rachel Berry, who was a product manager at Citrix, wrote on her blog about the enormous number of monitoring solutions\u00a0available that could be used for Citrix infrastructures.\u00a0And even earlier, Brian Madden and Kevin Goodman applied the term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,362],"tags":[79,82,300,305],"class_list":["post-4519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-citrix-monitoring","category-vdi-monitoring","tag-citrix-monitoring","tag-citrix-performance","tag-xenapp-monitoring","tag-xendesktop-monitoring"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Citrix Performance Monitoring - Common Misconceptions | eG Innovations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There has been much confusion around tools used to monitor Citrix performance. 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