In this brief post we will see how RTD provides information about performances.

The RTD server logs all the statistical information related with performances in its server log directory and precisely in the following file: ds_perf.csv

This file is a tab-separeted values file, pretty unreadable if opened with a common text editor.
Fortunately RTD provides us a Ms Excel spreadsheet that is able to parse all the information contained in the csv file into a readable format.

The steps to perform in order to load the csv content into the xls file are listed below (we assume you have an RTD client installed on your local machine):

1) Download from the RTD Server log directory the ds_perf.csv file.

2) Then, in your local system, open the ds_perf.xls file that you can find it in the following path: <RTD_HOME>/etc

3) Right click on the A2 cell and then select “Edit Text Import…”

4) Select the ds_perf.csv file previously downloaded

5) A wizard opens. Leave the default settings and click “Finish“.

Now you should be able to read the RTD Server’ performance statistics.

The same steps could be performed for the Load Generator log by considering the lg_perf.csv and lg_perf.xls files.

Enjoy!