The OpenEdge Command Center agents can collect performance metrics of the following OpenEdge resources:
  • OpenEdge database
  • PAS for OpenEdge

The OpenEdge Command Center agent supports 12.2 and later versions of these OpenEdge resources.

Administrators can use these metrics to understand performance issues and accordingly tune the OpenEdge resources for optimal performance. The performance metrics are collected using the OpenTelemetry (OTel) standards. For more information about OpenTelemetry, see the OpenTelemetry documentation.

Since OTel is a vendor-agnostic and open-source technology, you can use any market-leading Application Performance Monitoring (APM) vendor solutions, such as Elastic APM, Dynatrace, NewRelic, and so on, to view the performance metrics.

Deployment architecture for monitoring OpenEdge resources

The components required to monitor OpenEdge resources are as follows:
  • OpenEdge Command Center agent
  • OTel Collector
  • APM tool

The following diagram depicts the deployment architecture for monitoring OpenEdge resources using the OpenEdge Command Center agent:

OpenEdge Command Center agent—The OpenEdge Command Center agent is co-located with the OpenEdge resource you want to monitor. The agent monitors the OpenEdge resource, captures the required performance metrics, and then uses OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) to transfer metrics data to OTel Collector.

OTel Collector—The OTel Collector is an application that processes telemetry data and sends it out to various destinations. To monitor the OpenEdge resources, the OTel Collector processes the performance metrics data collected by the OpenEdge Command Center agent and then exports it to the APM tool.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool—APM tool is software that enables the observation and analysis of application performance. The tools may have data visualization capabilities that help administrators analyze performance and identify the bottlenecks. You can use market-leading APM tools that support the OTel standards, such as Elastic APM, Dynatrace, NewRelic, and so on, to view the performance metrics of OpenEdge resources. The APM tool uses the data exported by the OTel Collector.