4 Replies Latest reply on Apr 7, 2015 6:54 AM by Toby Erkson

Server Capacity Planning

Michael Chen Apr 6, 2015 10:19 AM

Hi all,

Michael here from Tableau, in our ongoing mission to provide the best experience for our server admins, we have been exploring tools to help admins meeting their capacity planning needs. Namely we're looking to create delightful admin experiences that will allow you to:

Measure Server Performance
Determine Load
Measure concurrency and aid capacity planning.

Along these lines we would like to know what our users would like to measure with such a tool: what metrics you want to collect, do you have your own alternative methods for measuring metrics such as concurrency, and any other answers you wish you could answer now about the performance of your server.

Thank you.

1. Re: Server Capacity Planning

Toby Erkson Apr 6, 2015 10:14 AM (in response to Michael Chen)

Michael Chen wrote:

...what your definition of concurrency is...
Whoa, wait a second, what is TABLEAU'S definition? Because whenever there's talk about the need for upgrading I'm asked what my Server concurrency is and I haven't been given a definition like " X number of users in Y time frame". How can we give a concurrency value when Tableau hasn't given us their definition?

I've just defaulted to Mark Jackson's definition* of unique number of log-ons in a 15 minute window.

*From his Server admin workbooks.
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2. Re: Server Capacity Planning

vishwanath Pendyala Apr 6, 2015 1:53 PM (in response to Michael Chen)

Hi Michael

I would like to have this added to your list Identify the Bad workbooks/ Data sets which are causing performance delay on the server

Thanks
Vishwa
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3. Re: Server Capacity Planning

Alexander Mou Apr 6, 2015 2:58 PM (in response to vishwanath Pendyala)

Add
- Number of workbooks and extracts existing in the refresh schedule but no
one or few ones have viewed in the past 2 weeks.

People just forget to remove those useless or outdated workbooks.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:54 PM, vishwanath Pendyala <
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4. Re: Server Capacity Planning

Toby Erkson Apr 7, 2015 6:54 AM (in response to Alexander Mou)

Alexander Mou wrote:

Add

- Number of workbooks and extracts existing in the refresh schedule but no

one or few ones have viewed in the past 2 weeks.

People just forget to remove those useless or outdated workbooks.

Agreed but allow for a variable time-frame. For us it's currently 15 months on production
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