In addition to measuring functional performance of database transactions, we are also interested in understanding how our application is performing from a memory usage perspective. Analyzing this type of information can help identify memory leaks in our application or high-memory utilization that might be affecting the user experience and causing our application to slow down.
In this next recipe, we will analyze the memory usage of our application over time.
To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time – Getting Data In. You should be familiar with the Splunk search bar and the time range picker.