Hi Team,

Is there a way to Identify from the webMethods side for all the live APIs (Majorly Rest APIs) how we can identify the timings and which API is taking more time and other information?

1. Identify all the webMethods API timings, required for performance analysis.
2. Can we get the history of current/live all wM APIs for the last year?

wM version - 10.5

Regarding #1, you can activate the capture of performance metrics:

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This generates PerformanceData events at the configured publish interval (here 60 minutes) in the API Gateway datastore.

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These metrics can also be sent to other destinations, like a separate Elastic Search or a relational database (if you’re on-premise.)

You can also activate the “Transaction Logging” global policy, which will generate a transactional event in the API gateway datastore for each API call (these events can also be sent to other destinations, just like the performance metrics.) Then it’s up to you to analyze the data.

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Regarding #2, you could use audit log data (see the first screenshot), but if these weren’t already activated, you won’t get access to history data.

Note: my screenshots are for 10.15, but I assume at least some of these analytics features were already there in 10.5.

Thanks, @Stephane.TAILLAND_emp for your reply, but we are not using the wM API gateway,

1. Is there a way to enable audit logging for all the APIs from IS OR for the whole server, so that we can check the data on dbo.WMSERVICE Table?

Hi. Yes, you can turn on service logging globally from the IS Administrator. The breadcrumb trail is
Administration > Logging configuration > View service logger details > Edit service logger details

Set the Level field to Brief. Here is what the online help says about that field:

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Note that this setting is not recommended for production as this level of logging will slow down processing.

Note also there is HTTP logging that can be enabled with watt.server.httplog. In 10.5 it does not include elapsed time, but as of IS_10.15_Core_Fix6, it can be extended with a set of predefined fields, including elapsedTime. See the documentation for watt.server.httplog.fields.

@Yogeshwar.Kabra ,

Are you troubleshooting a performance issue or are you planning on actively and continuously monitoring the performance of your APIs?

I ask because, in addition to the options discussed here, you also have a couple of other options.

If you’re trying to find the root cause of a particular performance issue, then you may want to consider using a webMethods profiler. If, however, you’re hoping to monitor the performance of your APIs continuously, then using an observability agent on your Integration Server to send the data to an APM platform may be of interest. Depending on the agent, you may even get insights similar to what you would get from a profiler.

Full disclosure: I work for a company that offers both and I’d be happy to chat more if you have any questions.

For example, here’s a screenshot from Grafana + Tempo showing a list of API’s and top-level services executed on webMethods sorted by Duration:

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You can then drill into one of those traces to see everything that contributed to the total execution time:

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Hope this helps,
Percio