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Performance counters (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)

 

Applies to: FAST Search Server 2010

This topic gives an overview of the available performance counters for Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Performance counters

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Indexing Dispatcher"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search QRServer"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Indexer"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Crawler"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Crawler Collection"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Document Processor"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Web Analyzer"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Content Distributor"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Dataset"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search FDispatcher"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Indexer Partition"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Indexer Status"

Performance Counter Category - "OSS Search FAST Content Plugin"

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Indexing Dispatcher"

Name Description Type

Batches Processed

The total number of batches processed by this indexing dispatcher instance.

NumberOfItems32

Mode

The indexing dispatcher fault tolerance mode.

NumberOfItems32

Number of Dispatchers

The number of indexing dispatchers that are currently registered in the name service.

NumberOfItems32

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search QRServer"

Name Description Type

# of Fail system queries

The number of failed system queries.

NumberOfItems32

# of Fail system queries/sec

The number of failed system queries per second.

RateOfCountsPerSecond32

# of Fail total queries

The total number of failed queries.

NumberOfItems32

# of Fail total queries/sec

The total number of failed queries per second.

RateOfCountsPerSecond32

# of Fail user queries

The number of failed user queries.

NumberOfItems32

# of Fail user queries/sec

The number of failed user queries per second.

RateOfCountsPerSecond32

# of Queries

The number of queries.

NumberOfItems64

# of Queries/sec

The number of queries per second.

RateOfCountsPerSecond64

# of Requests

The number of requests.

NumberOfItems64

# of Requests/sec

The number of requests per second.

RateOfCountsPerSecond64

Average document sum latency - ms

The average document sum latency (in milliseconds).

NumberOfItems32

Average latency - ms

The average latency (in milliseconds).

NumberOfItems32

Average latency last - ms

The average latency (in milliseconds) of the last queries.

NumberOfItems32

Average queries per minute

The average number of queries per minute.

NumberOfItems32

Average search latency - ms

The average search latency (in milliseconds).

NumberOfItems32

Peak queries per sec

Indicates the highest registered number of queries per second.

NumberOfItems32

Sampling period

The sampling period.

NumberOfItems32

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Indexer"

Name Description Type

# of documents - partition 0

Indicates the number of searchable items in the current active index on partition 0.

NumberOfItems32

# of documents - partition 1

Indicates the number of searchable items in the current active index on partition 1.

NumberOfItems32

# of documents - partition 2

Indicates the number of searchable items in the current active index on partition 2.

NumberOfItems32

# of documents - partition 3

Indicates the number of searchable items in the current active index on partition 3.

NumberOfItems32

# of documents - partition 4

Indicates the number of searchable items in the current active index on partition 4.

NumberOfItems32

# of excluded documents - partition 0

Indicates the number of items that are in the exclusion list of the currently active index on partition 0. This translates to items that are in the index but that should not be searchable (deleted, present in other partitions, etc).

NumberOfItems32

# of excluded documents - partition 1

Indicates the number of items that are in the exclusion list of the currently active index on partition 1. This translates to items that are in the index but that should not be searchable (deleted, present in other partitions, etc).

NumberOfItems32

# of excluded documents - partition 2

Indicates the number of items that are in the exclusion list of the currently active index on partition 2. This translates to items that are in the index but that should not be searchable (deleted, present in other partitions, etc).

NumberOfItems32

# of excluded documents - partition 3

Indicates the number of items that are in the exclusion list of the currently active index on partition 3. This translates to items that are in the index but that should not be searchable (deleted, present in other partitions, etc).

NumberOfItems32

# of excluded documents - partition 4

Indicates the number of items that are in the exclusion list of the currently active index on partition 4. This translates to items that are in the index but that should not be searchable (deleted, present in other partitions, etc).

NumberOfItems32

# of indexed documents/sec - partition 0

Indicates the average number of items that are indexed per second in partition 0.

NumberOfItems32

# of indexed documents/sec - partition 1

Indicates the average number of items that are indexed per second in partition 1.

NumberOfItems32

# of indexed documents/sec - partition 2

Indicates the average number of items that are indexed per second in partition 2.

NumberOfItems32

# of indexed documents/sec - partition 3

Indicates the average number of items that are indexed per second in partition 3.

NumberOfItems32

# of indexed documents/sec - partition 4

Indicates the average number of items that are indexed per second in partition 4.

NumberOfItems32

API operations

The API operations (the number of items that are indexed and updated) counter indicates the total number of feed operations that the indexer has processed.

NumberOfItems32

API operations per sec

Indicates the average number of processed API operations per second by the indexer.

NumberOfItems32

API partial update operations

Indicates the number of API operations processed by the indexer that are partial update operations.

NumberOfItems32

API queue load

Indicates the current size of the API queue (in bytes) divided by the maximum allowed size of the API queue (in bytes).

NumberOfItems32

API queue size

Indicates the number of batches that are currently in the API queue. The API queue is used by the indexer to hold pending operations waiting to be persisted.

NumberOfItems32

API remove operations

Indicates the number of API operations processed by the indexer that are remove operations.

NumberOfItems32

API status update operations

Indicates the number of API operations processed by the indexer that are status updates (failed_operations).

NumberOfItems32

Cache percentage - partition 0

Indicates the percentage of the total cache given to partition 0 that is used by the search process.

NumberOfItems32

Cache percentage - partition 1

Indicates the percentage of the total cache given to partition 1 that is used by the search process.

NumberOfItems32

Cache percentage - partition 2

Indicates the percentage of the total cache given to partition 2 that is used by the search process.

NumberOfItems32

Cache percentage - partition 3

Indicates the percentage of the total cache given to partition 3 that is used by the search process.

NumberOfItems32

Cache percentage - partition 4

Indicates the percentage of the total cache given to partition 4 that is used by the search process.

NumberOfItems32

Collections removed

Indicates the number of API operations processed by the indexer that are remove collection operations.

NumberOfItems32

Column id

Indicates which column number the indexer is part of.

NumberOfItems32

Column role code

Indicates if the indexer is a primary or a backup indexer (in the fault tolerance setup).

NumberOfItems32

Disk low state

Indicates if the indexer is in a state where it has little disk space to work with to persist items and to build new indices.

NumberOfItems32

Documents in indexer

Indicates the current total number of valid items that is contained in the docindex of the indexer. The docindex is a mapping to the persisted items on disk, so this translates to the number of valid items persisted on disk (FiXML).

NumberOfItems32

Documents indexed

Indicates the number of API operations processed by the indexer that are update (or add) operations.

NumberOfItems32

Failed operations

Indicates the number of API operations that could not be processed successfully.

NumberOfItems32

Fixml fill rate

An approximation of the ratio between the number of valid items in a persisted file (FiXML file) and the total number of persisted items. A value close to 100% means that the files on disk are well compacted together.

NumberOfItems32

Heartbeat status code

In a fault tolerant deployment, the heartbeat thread periodically checks for the state of the indexer in the column. The heartbeat status code shows if this thread is currently running, suspended or in an unknown state.

NumberOfItems32

Indexing suspended state

Indicates if the indexer currently has indexing suspended. This means that it is not creating new indices, although it is possibly persisting new items to disk.

NumberOfItems32

Last batch size

Indicates the size of the previous batch (in bytes) that was processed by the indexer.

NumberOfItems32

Manual reset state

Indicates when the indexer is in a reset index state. This state is entered when a user manually gives the command.

NumberOfItems32

ManualFTSyncNeeded

Manual fault-tolerant sync needed, is always set to false.

NumberOfItems32

MaxCacheKB - partition 0

Indicates the maximum cache size (in kilobytes) that is used by the search processes for partition 0.

NumberOfItems32

MaxCacheKB - partition 1

Indicates the maximum cache size (in kilobytes) that is used by the search processes for partition 1.

NumberOfItems32

MaxCacheKB - partition 2

Indicates the maximum cache size (in kilobytes) that is used by the search processes for partition 2.

NumberOfItems32

MaxCacheKB - partition 3

Indicates the maximum cache size (in kilobytes) that is used by the search processes for partition 3.

NumberOfItems32

MaxCacheKB - partition 4

Indicates the maximum cache size (in kilobytes) that is used by the search processes for partition 4.

NumberOfItems32

Maximum batch size

Indicates the size of the largest batch (in bytes) that was seen during processing by the indexer.

NumberOfItems32

Maximum documents per sec

Indicates the highest achieved ratio between the number of indexed items in an index job and the time it took to perform the job.

NumberOfItems32

Minimum documents per sec

Indicates the lowest achieved ratio between the number of indexed items in an index job and the time it took to perform the job.

NumberOfItems32

OngoingFTSequenceRecovery

Indicates if an indexer is currently recovering operations from other indexers in the column in a fault tolerance setup.

NumberOfItems32

Performing reset index state

Indicates if the indexer is currently in a reset index state, meaning that it is indexing documents from disk (file_id), and not performing incremental indexing.

NumberOfItems32

Registered file receivers

Indicates the number of file receivers currently registered on the indexer. This can be both backup indexers and search controllers. These receivers can subscribe to different structures to get them copied over by the indexer.

NumberOfItems32

Registered search controllers

Indicates the number of search controllers currently registered on the indexer. These search controllers register to get new indices over from the indexer.

NumberOfItems32

Row id

Indicates which row number the indexer is part of.

NumberOfItems32

SCtl currently allocated

Indicates how many search controller stubs are currently allocated by the indexer. This translates to how many search controllers the indexer is communicating with.

NumberOfItems32

SCtl total allocated

Indicates how many times a search controller has been allocated on the indexer side. The search controller stub is used to communicate with a remote search controller.

NumberOfItems32

Size of documents

Indicates the size (in bytes) of all the valid items that are persisted on disk (FiXML).

NumberOfItems64

Total indexing runs - partition 0

Indicates the number of times that a new index has been built on partition 0.

NumberOfItems32

Total indexing runs - partition 1

Indicates the number of times that a new index has been built on partition 1.

NumberOfItems32

Total indexing runs - partition 2

Indicates the number of times that a new index has been built on partition 2.

NumberOfItems32

Total indexing runs - partition 3

Indicates the number of times that a new index has been built on partition 3.

NumberOfItems32

Total indexing runs - partition 4

Indicates the number of times that a new index has been built on partition 4.

NumberOfItems32

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Crawler"

The performance counters in this category apply to the FAST Search Web crawler only.

Name Description Type

DNS Network Read Bytes

The number of bytes read from the network with respect to DNS resolving.

NumberOfItems64

DNS Network Write Bytes

The number of bytes written to the network with respect to DNS resolving.

NumberOfItems64

DNS Rate Limit

The current DNS rate threshold (requests per second).

NumberOfItems64

DNS Requests

The number of issued DNS requests.

NumberOfItems64

DNS Responses

The number of received DNS responses.

NumberOfItems64

DNS Retries

The number of issued DNS request retries.

NumberOfItems64

DNS Timeouts

The number of issued DNS requests that timed out.

NumberOfItems64

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Crawler Collection"

The performance counters in this category apply to the FAST Search Web crawler only.

Name Description Type

# of retries of URIs

The number of URIs that were retried.

NumberOfItems64

Active sites

The number of sites being crawled right now.

NumberOfItems64

Collection Status Code

The current collection crawl status.

NumberOfItems32

Content Indexing/Added

The number of ADD operations that were sent to content indexing.

NumberOfItems64

Content Indexing/Deleted

The number of DELETE operations that were sent to content indexing.

NumberOfItems64

Content Indexing/Failed

The number of failed operations.

NumberOfItems64

Content Indexing/Modified

The number of MOD operations that were sent to content indexing.

NumberOfItems64

Content Indexing/Operations

The number of operations that were submitted to content indexing.

NumberOfItems64

Content Indexing/Succeeded

The number of operations that were sent to content indexing that succeeded.

NumberOfItems64

Content Indexing/Urlschanges

The number of urlschange operations that were sent to content indexing.

NumberOfItems64

Document download rate per min

Indicates the current item download rate in items per minute.

NumberOfItems32

Document Size Average

The average item size (in bytes).

NumberOfItems64

Document Size Maximum

The maximum item size (in bytes).

NumberOfItems64

Document Size Total

The total size of the items (in bytes).

NumberOfItems64

Documents in CrawlerStore

The (approximate) number of items in the FAST Search Web crawler store.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Checksum Cache

The number of items that were skipped because they were being screened by the run-time checksum cache that is used for duplicate detection.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Chunk Error

The number of items that were skipped because there were problems with chunked encoding. Failure to de-chunk content.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Connect Error

The number of items that were skipped because of failure to connect to the remote Web server.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Connect Timeout

The number of items that were skipped because the connection attempt to the remote Web server timed out.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Empty Document

The number of items that were skipped because their size was 0 bytes.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Encoding

The number of items that were skipped because of problems with item encoding. This typically indicates problems with compressed content.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Header Exclude

The number of items that were skipped because of matching the collection setting 'exclude_headers'.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/HTTP Header

The number of items that were skipped because of errors with the HTTP header.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Incomplete

The number of items that were skipped because of being incomplete. The Web server did not return the complete document as indicated by the HTTP header.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/MIME Type

The number of items that were skipped because they did not match the collection setting 'allowed_types'.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Network Error

The number of items that were skipped because of various network errors.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/No 30x Target

The number of items that were skipped because they did not have a redirect target, but a redirect return code was given by the Web server.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/NoIndex

The number of items that were skipped because they contained a META Robots No Index tag.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/NoIndex RSS

The number of items that were skipped because RSS feed indexing was disabled by the 'index_feed' setting.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Other Error

The number of items that were skipped because of other reasons.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Timeout

The number of items that were skipped because it took longer time to download them than the amount of time specified by the 'fetch_timeout' setting.

NumberOfItems64

Documents Skipped/Too Large

The number of items that were skipped because they exceeded the collection 'cut_off' setting.

NumberOfItems64

Documents/Deleted

The number of items deleted from the item store.

NumberOfItems64

Documents/Downloaded

The number of downloaded items.

NumberOfItems64

Documents/Modified

The number of stored items that were modified.

NumberOfItems64

Documents/Requested

The number of URIs that the FAST Search Web crawler attempted to download.

NumberOfItems64

Documents/Stored

The number of item writes to the FAST Search Web crawler store.

NumberOfItems64

Documents/Unchanged

The number of downloaded items that were unchanged.

NumberOfItems64

Download average time - ms

Indicates the average download time.

NumberOfItems32

Download maximum time - ms

Indicates the maximum download time.

NumberOfItems32

Download total time - ms

Indicates the total download time.

NumberOfItems32

Feeding Status

Specifies whether content submission to the index is active (1) or paused (0).

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/200

HTTP Response 200: OK.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/226

FTP Response 226: Successful.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/300

HTTP Response 300: Multiple Choices.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/301

HTTP Response 301: Moved Permanently.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/302

HTTP Response 302: Found.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/303

HTTP Response 303: See Other.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/304

HTTP Response 304: Not Modified.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/307

HTTP Response 307: Temporary Redirect.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/400

HTTP Response 400: Bad Request.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/401

HTTP Response 401: Unauthorized.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/403

HTTP Response 403: Forbidden.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/404

HTTP Response 404: Not Found.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/406

HTTP Response 406: Not Acceptable.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/407

HTTP Response 407: Proxy Authentication Required.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/426

FTP Response 426: Transfer Aborted.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/500

HTTP Response 500: Internal Server Error.

NumberOfItems64

HTTPResponse/503

HTTP Response 503: Service Unavailable.

NumberOfItems64

Links Fwd to node scheduler

Indicates the number of URIs/links that were forwarded to the FAST Search Web crawler node scheduler.

NumberOfItems64

Links Fwd with in site manager

Indicates the number of URIs/links that were forwarded within a FAST Search Web crawler site manager.

NumberOfItems64

Links Fwd with in site worker

Indicates the number of URIs/links that were forwarded within a FAST Search Web crawler site worker.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/atom xml

The number of items with MIME type: application/atom+xml.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/msexcel

The number of items with MIME type: application/msexcel.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/msword

The number of items with MIME type: application/msword.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/octet stream

The number of items with MIME type: application/octet-stream.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/pdf

The number of items with MIME type: application/pdf.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/postscript

The number of items with MIME type: application/postscript.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/rss xml

The number of items with MIME type: application/rss+xml.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/rtf

The number of items with MIME type: application/rtf.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/unknown

The number of items with MIME type: application/unknown.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/vnd ms excel

The number of items with MIME type: application/vnd.ms-excel.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/vnd ms powerpoint

The number of items with MIME type: application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/vnd ms word

The number of items with MIME type: application/vnd.ms-word.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/x javascript

The number of items with MIME type: application/x-javascript.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/xml

The number of items with MIME type: application/xml.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type application/zip

The number of items with MIME type: application/zip.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type text/css

The number of items with MIME type: text/css.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type text/html

The number of items with MIME type: text/html.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type text/plain

The number of items with MIME type: text/plain.

NumberOfItems64

MIME type text/xml

The number of items with MIME type: text/xml.

NumberOfItems64

Network/Bytes received

The number of bytes (HTTP, HTTPS and FTP) read from the network.

NumberOfItems64

Network/Bytes received per min

The current network read rate (in bytes per minute).

NumberOfItems32

Network/Bytes sent

The number of bytes (HTTP, HTTPS and FTP) written to the network.

NumberOfItems64

Network/Bytes sent per min

The current network write rate (in bytes per minute).

NumberOfItems32

Progress/Cycle

The current refresh cycle number.

NumberOfItems64

Unique checksums stored

The number of unique checksums in the FAST Search Web crawler store.

NumberOfItems64

URIs Skipped due to Domain rules

The number of URIs that were skipped because of the 'include_domains' or 'exclude_domains' settings.

NumberOfItems64

URIs Skipped due to Scheme rules

The number of URIs that were skipped because of the 'allowed_schemes' setting.

NumberOfItems64

URIs Skipped due to URI rules

The number of URIs that were skipped because of the 'include_uris' or 'exclude_uris' settings.

NumberOfItems64

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Document Processor"

Name Description Type

Pipeline Attachments initialized

Indicates whether the attachments pipeline is initialized (1) or not (0).

NumberOfItems32

Pipeline Office14 initialized

Indicates whether the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint pipeline is initialized (1) or not (0).

NumberOfItems32

Queue Full State

Indicates whether the indexing dispatcher input queue is full (1) or not (0).

NumberOfItems32

Resolving dispatcher contentdistributor

Total number of invocations of the nameserver resolve of the contentdistributor dispatcher.

NumberOfItems32

Resolving master contentdistributor

Total number of invocations of the nameserver resolve of the primary contentdistributor.

NumberOfItems32

Server initializing

Indicates whether the document processor server is initializing (1) or not (0).

NumberOfItems32

Server processing

Indicates whether the document processor server is processing a set of operations (1) or not (0).

NumberOfItems32

Server submitting to indexing dispatcher

Indicates whether the document processor server is submitting a set of operations to the indexing dispatcher (1) or not (0).

NumberOfItems32

Total number of completed reassigns

The number of times the reassignment of the contentdistributor dispatcher has been completed.

NumberOfItems32

Total number of initializations

The number of times the document processor server has been initialized.

NumberOfItems32

Total number started reassigns

The number of times the reassignment of the contentdistributor dispatcher has been started.

NumberOfItems32

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Web Analyzer"

Name Description Type

Contributing Links

The number of links involved in the analysis.

NumberOfItems64

Current analysis runtime

Indicates the runtime of the current analysis.

NumberOfItems32

Last analysis ended

Indicates the time when the last analysis ended.

NumberOfItems64

Previous analysis runtime

Indicates how much time it took to complete the last analysis.

NumberOfItems32

Sites Served

The number of sites in the anchor database.

NumberOfItems64

URIs Served

The number of URIs in the anchor database.

NumberOfItems64

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Content Distributor"

Name Description Type

Average dispatch time - ms

Indicates the average dispatch time the last period (in milliseconds).

NumberOfItems32

Average processing time - ms

Indicates the average processing time last period (in milliseconds).

NumberOfItems32

Clients creating sessions

The number of clients creating a feeding session.

NumberOfItems32

Document processors

The number of document processors.

NumberOfItems64

Document processors busy

The number of document processors that are busy.

NumberOfItems64

Document processors invalid

The number of document processors that are not valid.

NumberOfItems64

Document processors unused

The number of document processors that are not used.

NumberOfItems64

Mode

Indicates the dispatcher running mode: primary or dispatcher.

Text

Operation sets submitted

The number of operation sets submitted to document processors.

NumberOfItems32

Operations last period

The number of operations over the last period.

NumberOfItems32

Operations received

The number of received operations.

NumberOfItems32

Operations/sec

The number of operations per second over the last period.

RateOfCountsPerSecond32

Processing load

Indicates the processing load.

NumberOfItems32

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Dataset"

Name Description Type

Active nodes

The number of active nodes.

NumberOfItems32

Active partitions

The number of active partitions.

NumberOfItems32

Average searches per second

The average number of searches per second.

RateOfCountsPerSecond64

Average time per search - ms

The average number of milliseconds per search.

NumberOfItems64

Average uncached search time - ms

The average uncached search time in milliseconds.

NumberOfItems32

FirstPartition

The first partition number.

NumberOfItems32

MaxActiveNodes

The maximum number of active nodes.

NumberOfItems32

MaxActivePartitions

The maximum number of active partitions.

NumberOfItems32

Partitions

The number of partitions.

NumberOfItems32

Samples

The number of queries used to calculate the average counters.

NumberOfItems64

Timed out

The number of timeouts.

NumberOfItems64

Timeout percentage

The timeout percentage.

NumberOfItems32

Total search time - ms

The total search time (in milliseconds).

NumberOfItems64

Total searches

The total number of searches.

NumberOfItems64

Total selection cost

The currently active reference cost for this FAST Search Dataset. The reference cost is used by fdispatch for load balancing queries. The lowest row reference cost will be used at any time.

NumberOfItems32

Unit selection cost

The reference cost that will be added to the total selection cost by selecting (in other words: running a query on) this FAST Search Dataset.

NumberOfItems32

Up time

The total uptime of the dataset.

NumberOfItems64

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search FDispatcher"

Name Description Type

Active count

The number of actively running queries in the fdispatch process since the last index set change.

NumberOfItems64

Instantiate count

The total number of queries that have been dispatched since the last index set change.

NumberOfItems64

Resource usage

The total number of open file handles.

NumberOfItems64

Total resource count

The maximum number of open file handles. This is 1014 for fdispatch and 1004 for fsearch.

NumberOfItems64

Wait queue length

The number of queued queries that are temporarily put on hold.

NumberOfItems64

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Indexer Partition"

Name Description Type

Active documents

The number of active/live items.

NumberOfItems64

Index id

Indicates the internal index ID.

NumberOfItems64

Indexed per second

The number of items that are indexed per second for this partition.

NumberOfItems64

Pending exclusion list

The number of items that are yet to be excluded.

NumberOfItems64

Status code

The current state of the partition.

NumberOfItems32

Timestamp indexed

Indicates the index time stamp.

NumberOfItems64

Total documents

The total number of items, including the items that are on the exclusion list.

NumberOfItems64

Type code

Indicates the partition type. A static partition may not be indexed.

NumberOfItems32

Performance Counter Category - "FAST Search Indexer Status"

Name Description Type

# of connected feeds

The number of connected feeds.

NumberOfItems32

# status updates

The current number of status updates.

NumberOfItems64

API operations processed

The total number of operations processed.

NumberOfItems64

Column

Indicates the column number.

NumberOfItems32

Current queue size

The current indexer queue size in bytes.

NumberOfItems64

Doc API frequence

The average number of processed operations per second.

NumberOfItems64

Doc API load

The current indexer queue load in percentage.

NumberOfItems64

Exclusion interval

The exclusion interval in seconds. Exclusionlisting is a mechanism for removing documents from the search results without rebuilding the indexes.

NumberOfItems32

Heartbeat code

The heartbeat periodically checks all other servers, answering a broadcast for missing client IDs and missing packets. The heartbeat may suspend while synchronizing the fault tolerance storage with another indexer.

NumberOfItems32

LastSequence

Indicates the last processed sequence id in the indexer's internal sequence processor.

NumberOfItems64

NumberOfElements

The current number of unprocessed elements on the indexer queue.

NumberOfItems64

Row

Indicates the row number.

NumberOfItems32

Status code

Indicates the status code.

NumberOfItems32

TCP port

Indicates the TCP port.

NumberOfItems32

Time since last index

Indicates how many seconds have passed since the last index was built.

NumberOfItems64

Performance Counter Category - "OSS Search FAST Content Plugin"

The performance counters in this category apply to items that are crawled with the FAST Search Connector Content Search Service Application only. The counters do not persist between sessions. A service restart or other administrative operations will reset the values.

Name Description

Items Total

The total number of documents submitted for processing.

Items Success

The number of items that have been successfully indexed.

Items Failed Individually

The number of items that failed prior to indexing.

Items Open

The number of items that are currently being processed, and that were neither successful nor have they failed.

Items Failed Batch

The number of items that failed because the batch that contains them has failed.

Items Ignored

Items that failed in an MSS component external to the content plug-in.

Items No Index

The number of items with a “noindex” flag.

Items Warnings

The number of received FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint item warnings.

Items Retried

The number of items that have been resubmitted individually after failing as part of a batch.

Items In Robot Threads

The number of open FAST Search Content Search Service Application sessions that are running via the content plug-in.

Batches Total

The total number of batches that were submitted for processing.

Batches Success

The number of batches that have been successfully indexed.

Batches Failed

The number of batches that failed prior to indexing

Batches Open

The number of batches that are currently being processed and that were neither successful nor have they failed.

Batches Ready

The number of batches that have been queued up and are not yet submitted to FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Batches Submitted

The number of batches that have been submitted to FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint but that have not yet completed processing.

Avg End-To-End Time

The average time from item initialization to completion of indexing.

Avg Init Time

The average time from item initialization until the item has been placed into a batch for submission.

Avg Wait Time

The average time from when an item is placed into a batch until the first attempt to submit the batch to FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Avg Submit Time

The average time from the first attempt to submit an item's batch until FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint acknowledges the batch has successfully been received for processing.

Avg Callback Time

The average time between acknowledgement of a batch submission and the receipt of a final success or failure callback

Transactions Add Started

The number of initialized ADD operations.

Transactions Add Completed

The number of completed ADD operations.

Transactions Update Started

The number of initialized UPDATE operations.

Transactions Update Completed

The number of completed UPDATE operations.

Transactions Delete Started

The number of initialized DELETE operations.

Transactions Delete Completed

The number of completed DELETE operations.

Submitter Threads

The number of threads that are submitting batches to FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Submitter Thread Idle Time

The percentage of time an item has spent in submitter threads not doing anything.

Submitter Thread Submit Time

The percentage of time spent (compared to total time) registering batches with FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Feed Rate Item

The number of items that were processed per second.

Feed Rate Data

The item feed rate in megabytes per second.

Items Failed Timeout

The number of items that timed out while waiting for a success or failure callback from FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Items Failed Total

The total number of items that have failed for any reason.

Submission Timeouts

The total number of times a batch timed out while submitting to FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (this number includes multiple retries for same batch).

Batches Failed Timeout

The number of batches that timed out while waiting for a success or failure callback from FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.