Caching Application Block Performance Counters
The following table describes the Caching Application Block performance counters.
Performance Counter |
Description |
|---|---|
Cache Expiries/sec |
The rate at which items were expired from the cache. |
Cache Hit Ratio |
The ratio of cache hits to reads. A cache hit occurs when the cache contains the requested item. |
Cache Hits/sec |
The rate at which the cache received requests for items it contained. |
Cache Misses/sec |
The rate at which the cache received requests for items it did not contain. |
Cache Scavenged Items/sec |
The rate at which items were scavenged from the cache. |
Total # of Cache Access Attempts |
The total number of reads from the cache. |
Total Cache Entries |
The total number of items in the cache. |
Total Cache Expiries |
The total number of items expired from the cache. |
Total Cache Hits |
The total number of requests for existing items received by the cache. |
Total Cache Misses |
The total number of requests for non-existing items received by the cache. |
Total Cache Scavenged Items |
The total number of items scavenged from the cache. |
Total Updated Entries |
The total number of items updated in the cache. An update can be either an "add" or a "remove" action. |
Updated Entries/sec |
The rate at which items in the cache were updated. An update can be either an "add" or a "remove" action. |
A rate counter samples an increasing count of events over time and divides the values by the change in time to display a rate of activity. For more information about performance counters, see Overview of Performance Monitoring in the .NET Framework Class Library on MSDN.