CouchDB Requests Test

Requests are used to invoke information from the database, store new data, perform views and format the information stored within the documents in the target server. This test monitors those requests and provide metrics with different request rates (such as Bulk request rate, Http request rate,etc.,) for the requests raised to the CouchDB server.

Target of the test : Apache CouchDB Server

Agent deploying the test : An internal/remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the target Apache CouchDB Server.

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter	Description
Test period	How often should the test be executed.
Host	The IP address of the target server that is being monitored.
Port	The port number through which the Couchdb server communicates. The default port is 5984.
Username	In order to monitor an Apache CouchDB server, a special database user account with Admin privilege has to be created in every Apache CouchDB server instance that requires monitoring. In the Username text box, specify the Username for monitoring the target Apache CouchDB server instance.To create a new user, refer Pre-requisites for Monitoring Apache CouchDB topic.
Password	Specify the password of the specified Username.
Confirm Password	Confirm the password by retyping it here.

Measurements made by the test
Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Bulk request rate	Indicates the rate of bulk requests during the last measurement period.	Requests/sec	This measures shows number of bulk requests occurred since last restart of the server.
Http request rate	Indicates the rate of requests during the last measurement period.	Requests/sec
Purges request rate	Indicates the rate of Purge requests during the last measurement period.	Requests/sec
View index rate	Indicates the rate of index requests during the last measurement period.	Requests/sec
Temporary index request rate	Indicates the rate of temporary index requests during the last measurement period.	Requests/sec