APM Insight PHP Agent Performance Report

Test Environment

●        OS : 64 bit Linux OS

●        CPU : Intel i5, 2.5 Hz, 4 cores

●        Memory : 8 GB

●        Apache Web Server

Impact on CPU usage :

When the target web application is set to receive 300 requests per minute, the APM Insight PHP Agent consumes only 1 % CPU on average (using default production settings). 

On increasing the throughput to 600 requests per minute, the APM Insight PHP agent consumes around 0.3-1.6% CPU on average.

The below table summarizes the details.

Impact on Physical Memory (RAM) usage: 

The APM Insight PHP Agent by default collects performance data and pushes it to its own service, every minute, and hence, the footprint on the user memory is minimal, and only transient.

The memory usage is a maximum of 212 KB at an RPM of 300, and a maximum of 24 KB at an RPM of 600.

The below table summarizes the details.

Impact on binary data processing :

The above statistics are for agents running on an Apache web server. To understand how much memory and CPU the agent will consume when processing binary data, please see the below table. 

Impact on application response time:

To calculate how fast php execution is, many use a PHP Benchmark script provided by http://www.php-benchmark-script.com/ The following table shows the impact of PHP agent's on your application's response time.

PHP version: 7.2.23-1+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1

Platform: Linux