Diagnostics & Performance Testing

The Dashboard page provides site administrators with vital information on the performance of various site subsystems and a utility for running tests on a variety of system components and functions. It serves as a technical health monitor for the platform.

What is it for?

Why should you use it?

Monitoring the performance and “technical health” of various subsystems of your site.  

To monitor and run (execute) tests of various components of your site to get a current status and pinpoint problems by scanning for errors and warnings.

The Diagnostics page serves as a technical health monitor for your site and provides site administrators with vital information on the performance of various site subsystems and a utility for running tests on a variety of system components and functions.

To access the Diagnostics page and run performance tests

Note: You must be logged in with MarketDirect StoreFront’s built-in Administrator account in order to access the Diagnostics page.  

1.        Select Administration > Diagnostics on the main navigation menu.

2.        On the Diagnostics page, click Clear All Cached Data (Advanced) to force the database to reload, thus refreshing all data. Doing this will reset all test data (e.g., statuses) and delete all prior test results.

3.        Review the Status, Error, and Warning columns and refer to the Event Log to investigate errors and warnings.   

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Manual test must be run by clicking Execute.

The test passed and the feature/function is working properly.

Error: The test failed.

Warning. The test could not be run.

4.        To run a test, click Execute. The system will display any messages about the test results at the bottom of the screen.

Note: Manual tests can place stress on the system. Thus, you might want to run them during period of low traffic on the system.   

See Also

         Reports

         Dynamic Query Tool

         Creating a New Query with the Dynamic Query tool

         Customer Order History

         Google Analytics Tracking

         Event Log

         Transaction Log

         Logs and Reporting - Contents