Check the realtime performance/statistics of a NetScaler vServer

There are many a time you would want to look at the vServer performance due to many reasons – you are just too curious to see all the numbers, you have an issue with excessive resource utilization due to a particular vServer or you are seeing unusual amount of hits in Netscaler Insight Center graphs.

There are a couple of ways you could check it – via the NetScaler GUI and via the command line.

Via the GUI, its quite simple as all you need to do is to select the vServer and click on Statistics button to see the performance counters. the result will be as follows

Via the command line , it’s a bit more powerful as it gives the overall resource usage of the NetScaler appliance as well on top of all sorts of info at regular intervals. Here is what you need to do to check the realtime stats of a vServer

>shell

#nsconmsg -i vServername -s ConLb=2 -d oldconmsg