Composite requests
Use the Composite Request features in the MSVE to monitor transactions that use resources on more than one server.
The Composite Request features help you to:
- Determine if the reason a top-level request is hanging is its use of resources on a different application server.
- Identify the origin (the application server and top-level request) that invoked a hanging request.
- Discover the inter-application architecture of complex workflows.
There are a number of areas of MSVE that help you to locate, view,
and analyze composite requests.
| Area of functionality | Description of functionality |
|---|---|
| Server Activity Display | View active requests/transactions on a specific server |
| In-Flight Request Search | Search for active requests/transactions on all servers, a group of servers, or a specific server |
| Performance Analysis and Reporting | Locate completed requests/transactions |
| Composite Method Trace | Display the method traces of all requests/transactions in the composite request |
| Composite Stack Trace | Display the stack traces of all servers involved in the composite request that are still actively processing the request/transaction |
Each of these features produces a list of requests/transactions
which might participate in a composite request. The presence of the
composite request icon indicates that a request/transaction participates
in a composite request: 