Response Time Monitoring Components

The base functionality of the Response Time Monitoring agent is:
  • HTTP transaction monitoring
  • HTTPS transaction monitoring
  • Browser-based timings (by using JavaScript Injection) monitoring
To see more detailed descriptions of this functionality, see Configuring Response Time Monitoring.
Depending on the type of HTTP Server you are monitoring, the base functionality of the Response Time Monitoring agent is provided by using one of the following components:
IBM HTTP Server Response Time module
The IBM HTTP Server Response Time module can monitor only http content type of: text/html, application/xml or application/json. (without Javascript Injection)
The IBM HTTP Server Response Time module can currently not monitor javascript instrument compressed requests.
The IBM HTTP Server Response Time module Javascript Injection can currently monitor only http content type of text/html.
Packet Analyzer
The Packet Analyzer can only monitor content type of text/html. The Packet Analyzer can monitor gzip compressed requests.

If you are monitoring an IBM HTTP Server or Apache HTTP Server on AIX or Linux, use the IBM HTTP Server Response Time module. It is possible but not recommended to use the Packet Analyzer. IBM HTTP Server Response Time module is not supported on Windows. Use Packet Analyzer in a Windows environment.

If you are monitoring any other HTTP server, use Packet Analyzer. The Packet Analyzer is supported on Window, Linux, and AIX.