Salesforce Objects Test

API objects represent database tables that contain your organization's information. For example, the central object in the Salesforce data model represents accounts—companies and organizations involved with your business, such as customers, partners, and competitors.

The term “record” describes a particular occurrence of an object (such as a specific account like “IBM” or “United Airlines” that is represented by an Account object).

Objects already created for you by Salesforce are called standard objects. Objects you create in your organization are called custom objects. Objects you create that map to data stored outside your organization are called external objects.

The table below lists the key standard objects and describes their purpose:

Object Name	Purpose
Account	Represents an individual account, which is an organization or person involved with your business (such as customers, competitors, and partners).
Asset	Represents an item of commercial value, such as a product sold by your company or a competitor, that a customer has purchased and installed.
Campaign	Represents and tracks a marketing campaign, such as a direct mail promotion, webinar, or trade show.
Case	Represents a case, which is a customer issue or problem
Contact	Represents a contact, which is a person associated with an account
Contract	Represents a contract (a business agreement) associated with an Account.
Lead	Represents a prospect or lead
Opportunity	Represents an opportunity, which is a sale or pending deal.
Organization	Represents key configuration information for an organization.
Partner	Represents a partner relationship between two Account records or between an Opportunity record and an Account record.
Quote	The Quote object represents a quote, which is a record showing proposed prices for products and services.

All objects consume valuable space in the Salesforce database. However, since standard objects pre-exist in the database, these objects tend to influence database sizing decisions more. This is why, when planning the future capacity of the database, administrators should not only consider how many standard objects of what types pre-exist, but also understand how that number has been growing over time. Additionally, by observing the growth rate of standard objects, administrators will also be able to business are faring well, and which may require more attention. Using the Salesforce Objects test, administrators can receive these useful insights!

This test monitors the standard objects listed in the table above, and reports the count of objects of each type that are currently in the database. Additionally, the test also observes how the population of each object type has been growing over time, and accordingly reports the growth rate of every type. This will point administrators to the object types that will probably require more space in the future than the rest, and thus help them draw out fail-proof capacity plans for the future. The growth rates also reveal to administrators if business is booming or not! 

Target of the test : A Salesforce organization

Agent deploying the test : A remote agent.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the Salesforce organization being monitored

Configurable parameters for the test

Parameters	Description
Test Period	How often should the test be executed.
Host	The host for which the test is to be configured.
Email	This test needs to login to the target Salesforce organization as a user with Administrative rights, in order to run API commands on it and pull metrics. To facilitate this connection, specify the email ID of the Administrator of the Salesforce organization here.
Password	Specify the password of the Administrator here.
Confirm Password	Confirm the administrator password by retyping here.

Measurements made by the test

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Accounts	Indicates the number of Account objects that exist in the database.	Number	Track the changes to the values of these measures over time to spot the standard object type that is growing consistently in strength. Depending upon the type of objects that is growing, you can decide if there is cause for concern or not. For instance, a growth in the number of Cases is worrisome; whereas, a growth in the count of Contracts is a sign that business is healthy.
Assets	Indicates the number of Asset objects in the Salesforce database.	Number
Campaigns	Indicates the number of Campaign objects in the Salesforce database.	Number
Cases	Indicates the number of Case objects in the Salesforce database.	Number
Contacts	Indicates the number of Contact objects in the Salesforce database.	Number
Contracts	Indicates the number of Contract objects in the Salesforce database.	Number
Leads	Indicates the number of Lead objects in the Salesforce database.	Number
Opportunities	Indicates the number of Opportunity objects in the Salesforce database.	Number
Organizations	Indicates the number of Organization objects in the Salesforce database.	Number
Partners	Indicates the number of Partner objects in the Salesforce database.	Number
Quotes	Indicates the number of Quote objects in the Salesforce database.	Number
Accounts growth rate	Indicates the rate at which the count of Account objects is growing in the database.	Percent	Compare the value of this measure with that of the other 'growth rate' measures reported by this test to identify the standard objects that are growing in strength at a much higher rate than the rest. When sizing the database, administrators should make sure that there is enough room for this 'growth' . If not, a serious database space crunch will become inevitable. Also, depending upon the type of objects that is growing, you can decide if there is cause for concern or not. For instance, a growth in the number of Cases is worrisome; whereas, a growth in the count of Contracts is a sign that business is healthy.
Assets growth rate	Indicates the rate at which the count of Asset objects is growing in the database.	Percent
Campaigns growth rate	Indicates the rate at which the count of Campaign objects is growing in the database.	Percent
Cases growth rate	Indicates the rate at which the count of Case objects is growing in the database.	Percent
Contacts growth rate	Indicates the rate at which the count of Contact objects is growing in the database.	Percent
Contracts growth rate	Indicates the rate at which the count of Contract objects is growing in the database.	Percent
Leads growth rate	Indicates the rate at which the count of Lead objects is growing in the database.	Percent
Opportunity growth rate	Indicates the rate at which the count of Opportunity objects is growing in the database.	Percent
Organizations growth rate	Indicates the rate at which the count of Organization objects is growing in the database.	Percent
Partners growth rate	Indicates the rate at which the count of Partner objects is growing in the database.	Percent
Quotes growth rate	Indicates the rate at which the count of Quote objects is growing in the database.	Percent