Application Performance Explorer (APE) models your application design and tests the expected performance and interactions of a distributed architecture. You can save favorite design architectures and use them as the basis for new configurations and performance tests.
With APE, you can understand the consequences of certain design choices and test design alternatives as you tune your application's performance. You can automate the tests, scheduling them for certain clock times to experience peak network traffic or other throughput parameters. Additionally, you can modify APE's source code for customized performance testing.
The following sections provide information to acquaint you with Application Performance Explorer.
| Section | Description |
| Why Use Application Performance Explorer? | Describes how APE can help improve your application designs by testing various architectural and deployment configurations. |
| Understanding How APE Works | Describes the APE architecture and how it works. |
| Using Application Performance Explorer | Explains how to install APE and run a simple test. |
| Defining APE Profiles | Describes the profile as a specific — yet modifiable — architectural configuration that forms the basis for an APE performance test. |
| Performance Tuning Your Application | Introduces some good application design ideas and tests the resulting performance. Each test comparison includes the setup values and the generated data. |
| Customizing Application Performance Explorer | Explains how to customize the APE component source code to more closely model your exact test requirements. Additionally, suggests using APE source code for a new project. |